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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
H.R. 1163 - Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act
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Rule Information
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 9-4 on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 383:
Agreed to by a record vote of 215-209, after agreeing to the previous question by a record vote of 215-211, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
MANAGERS: Roy/Scanlon
1. Closed rule for H.R. 2.
2. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
3. Provides that the bill shall be considered as read.
4. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill.
5. Provides five hours of general debate with two hours equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Homeland Security or their respective designees, two hours equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees, and one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or their respective designees.
6. Provides one motion to recommit.
7. Closed rule for H.R. 1163.
8. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
9. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in the Rules Committee report, shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
10. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
11. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means or their respective designees.
12. Provides one motion to recommit
Amendments (click headers to sort)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Version 3 | Smith (MO) | Republican | MANAGER’S AMENDMENT Revised Ensures that state unemployment trust fund balances will be held harmless. If a state's unemployment trust fund balance goes below where it otherwise would have been absent this law, the amendment directs the Treasury Secretary, to use the offsets in the bill, subject to appropriations, to replace the funds in equal amounts so the state will not increase unemployment taxes. | Considered as Adopted |
| 2 | Version 2 | Larson (CT) | Democrat | Revised Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits made to seniors receiving Social Security who were without fault in the overpayment. | Revised |
| 3 | Version 2 | Sewell (AL) | Democrat | Revised Revises the Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act to require that states waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to individuals who were receiving Medicaid. | Revised |
| 4 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA), Molinaro (NY), Garbarino (NY), LaLota (NY), D'Esposito (NY) | Republican | Strikes Section 5: EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY STATE STAFFING FLEXIBILITY. | Submitted |
| 5 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA), Molinaro (NY), Garbarino (NY), LaLota (NY), D'Esposito (NY) | Republican | Adds a rule of construction saying that nothing in this Act shall be construed to encourage the privatization of State merit personnel or to denigrate and undermine a State’s existing merit personnel system. | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 2 | Evans (PA) | Democrat | Revised Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits made to workers who received overpayments because of a contractor error and were without fault in the overpayment. | Revised |
| 7 | Version 1 | Sánchez (CA) | Democrat | Strikes the anti-union contracting provision within the bill to ensure qualified and experienced staff are processing unemployment insurance. | Submitted |
| 8 | Version 1 | Mace (SC) | Republican | Authorizes the use of artificially intelligent software to assist in detecting waste, fraud, and abuse in cross-claim checking under Section 4. | Submitted |
| 9 | Version 1 | Evans (PA) | Democrat | Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits made to small business owners and employers who were without fault in the overpayment. | Submitted |
| 10 | Version 1 | Espaillat (NY) | Democrat | Require states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to food and grocery workers who were without fault in the unemployment insurance overpayments. | Submitted |
| 11 | Version 1 | Watson Coleman (NJ) | Democrat | Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to individuals who are parents receiving WIC benefits who were without fault in the UI overpayments. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Watson Coleman (NJ) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary to certify that no provision would result in adults currently experiencing housing insecurity without fault in the UI overpayment being forced to repay overpayments due to state error before the bill can take effect. | Submitted |
| 13 | Version 2 | Espaillat (NY) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary to certify that no provision would result in childcare center or family childcare workers in 2020 or 2021 who received UI overpayment by no fault of their own, would be forced to repay those overpayments before the bill can take effect. | Revised |
| 14 | Version 1 | Davis (IL) | Democrat | Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that this Act would not result in Social Security beneficiaries without fault in the overpayment being forced to repay overpayments. | Submitted |
| 15 | Version 1 | Molinaro (NY) | Republican | Requires states to report on how they have used retained funding to strengthen UI systems against fraud. | Submitted |
| 16 | Version 2 | Garcia (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to restaurant and food industry workers who were without fault in the unemployment insurance overpayments. | Revised |
| 17 | Version 2 | DelBene (WA) | Democrat | Revised Require states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits made to workers who were parents without fault in the overpayment. | Revised |
| 18 | Version 1 | Davis (IL) | Democrat | Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits made to youth experiencing homelessness who were without fault in the overpayment. | Submitted |
| 19 | Version 1 | Frost (FL) | Democrat | Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that this Act would not result in retail industry workers without fault in the overpayment being forced to repay overpayments. | Submitted |
| 20 | Version 1 | Davis (IL) | Democrat | Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits made to foster youth who were without fault in the overpayment. | Submitted |
| 21 | Version 2 | Garcia (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits made to construction workers who were without fault in the unemployment insurance overpayments. | Revised |
| 22 | Version 1 | Frost (FL) | Democrat | Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that no provision would result in an individual who experienced a natural disaster in 2020 or 2021 without fault in the overpayment being forced to repay overpayments. | Submitted |
| 23 | Version 1 | Frost (FL) | Democrat | Withdrawn Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that no provision would result in an individual who experienced a natural disaster in 2020 or 2021 without fault in the overpayment being forced to repay overpayments. | Withdrawn |
| 24 | Version 1 | Williams (GA) | Democrat | Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to individuals who currently are experiencing housing insecurity who were without fault in the UI overpayments. | Submitted |
| 25 | Version 1 | Williams (GA) | Democrat | Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to individuals who worked as school personnel (including teachers and support staff) in 2020 or 2021 who were without fault in the UI overpayments. | Submitted |
| 26 | Version 2 | Williams (NY), Molinaro (NY), Issa (CA) | Republican | Revised Requires states with an outstanding balance of advances from the Unemployment Trust Fund in excess of $1 billion to submit a plan to the Labor Department explaining how that state plans to repay the advances. | Revised |
| 27 | Version 1 | Davis (IL) | Democrat | Requires the inclusion of the names of Representatives and Senators voting in favor of allowing collection of unemployment overpayments received through no fault of recipient on any correspondence from a state agency noticing the required repayment. | Submitted |
| 28 | Version 1 | Plaskett (VI) | Democrat | Delays effect of the bill until the Secretary certifies that the bill would not result in workers in the hospitality and tourism industry, without fault in the overpayment, being forced to repay overpayments. | Submitted |
| 29 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Would prohibit the state from reclaiming overpayments, under the authorities of this bill, for persons who operated a farm in 2020 or 2021. | Submitted |
| 30 | Version 1 | Schneider (IL) | Democrat | Adds bank verification to the list of required program integrity tools to be used by state unemployment programs and provides for enforcement of the requirements. | Submitted |
| 31 | Version 1 | Lee (PA) | Democrat | Establishes essential healthcare workers and support staff as ineligible for unemployment overpayment recovery between 2020 and 2021. | Submitted |
| 32 | Version 1 | Pressley (MA) | Democrat | Delay enactment until the Secretary certifies that this Act would not result in parents of minors without fault in the overpayment being forced to repay overpayments. | Submitted |
| 33 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Withdrawn My first amendment would protect foster parents who were without fault in their unemployment overpayment at the time of their accidental overpayment in 2020 or 2021. | Withdrawn |
| 34 | Version 1 | Thompson (CA) | Democrat | Amends the criminal code to extend the statute of limitations for fraud offenses involving CARES Act unemployment insurance programs to ten years. | Submitted |
| 35 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Withdrawn Strike the enacting clause until Secretary certifies that no provision would result in current or former foster youth under age 26 without fault in the UI overpayment being forced to repay overpayments due to state error. | Withdrawn |
| 36 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that no provision would result in parents currently receiving WIC benefits without fault in the UI overpayment being forced to repay overpayments due to state error. | Submitted |
| 37 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that no provision would result in adults currently living in low-income housing without fault in the UI overpayment being forced to repay overpayments due to state error. | Submitted |
| 38 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Requires states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to members of foster parents were without fault in the UI overpayment. [worker in a household that included a foster child in 2020, 2021, or that currently includes a foster child] | Submitted |
| 39 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that no provision would result in without fault in the UI overpayment being forced to repay overpayments due to state error. | Submitted |
| 40 | Version 1 | Green, Al (TX) | Democrat | Require states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to Veterans who were without fault in the unemployment insurance overpayments. | Submitted |
| 41 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Require states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to law enforcement personnel and security in 2020 or 2021 who were without fault in the UI overpayments. | Submitted |
| 42 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Require states to waive overpayments of pandemic unemployment benefits that were made to firefighters and emergency personnel in 2020 or 2021 who were without fault in the UI overpayments. | Submitted |
| 43 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Delays enactment until the Secretary certifies that no provision would result in school personnel- including teachers and support staff- in 2020 or 2021 without fault in the UI overpayment being forced to repay overpayments due to state error. | Submitted |
| 44 | Version 1 | Higgins (NY), Schneider (IL) | Democrat | Strikes Section 7, the budget offset repealing funds already allocated by the American Rescue Plan Act to combat unemployment insurance fraud. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 46
Motion by Mr. McGovern to amend the rule to make in order the following amendments to H.R. 2: numbers 17, 41, and 44, offered by Representative Jackson Lee; number 13 offered by Representative Griffith; numbers 49, 50, and 51, offered by Representative Grothman; and numbers 8, 10, 33, 34, 35, and 48, offered by Representative Correa, as well as the following amendments to H.R. 1163: numbers 14, 18, 20, and 27, offered by Representative Davis; numbers 36, 37, 38, and 39,offered by Representative Moore; and numbers 41, 42, and 43, offered by Representative Jackson Lee. Defeated: 4–8
Majority Member
Vote
Mr. Burgess
Nay
Mr. Reschenthaler
Nay
Mrs. Fischbach
Nay
Mr. Massie
No Vote
Mr. Norman
Nay
Mr. Roy
Nay
Mrs. Houchin
Nay
Mr. Langworthy
Nay
Mr. Cole, Chairman
Nay
Minority Member
Vote
Mr. McGovern
Yea
Ms. Scanlon
Yea
Mr. Neguse
Yea
Ms. Leger Fernández
Yea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 51
Motion by Mr. Roy to report the rule. Adopted: 9–4
Majority Member
Vote
Mr. Burgess
Yea
Mr. Reschenthaler
Yea
Mrs. Fischbach
Yea
Mr. Massie
Yea
Mr. Norman
Yea
Mr. Roy
Yea
Mrs. Houchin
Yea
Mr. Langworthy
Yea
Mr. Cole, Chairman
Yea
Minority Member
Vote
Mr. McGovern
Nay
Ms. Scanlon
Nay
Mr. Neguse
Nay
Ms. Leger Fernández
Nay