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118TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 2785
To permanently exempt payments made from the Railroad Unemployment
Insurance Account from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 20, 2023
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. LARSEN of Washington,
Mr. BACON, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, and Mr. STAUBER) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget
A BILL
To permanently exempt payments made from the Railroad
Unemployment Insurance Account from sequestration
under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Railroad Employee Eq-
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uity and Fairness Act’’ or the ‘‘REEF Act’’.
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SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS FROM THE RAILROAD
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACCOUNT.
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(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 235 of the Continued
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Assistance to Rail Workers Act of 2020 (subchapter III
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of title II of division N of Public Law 116–260) is amend-
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ed—
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(1) in subsection (b)—
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(A) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2);
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and
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(B) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)—’’ and in-
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serting ‘‘subsection (a) shall take effect 7 days
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after the date of enactment of the Continued
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Assistance to Rail Workers Act of 2020.’’; and
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(2) by striking subsection (c).
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(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
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section (a) shall apply as if enacted on the date before
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the date on which the national emergency concerning the
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novel coronavirus disease (COVID–19) outbreak declared
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by the President on March 13, 2020, under the National
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Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) terminates.
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