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Congress has continued to consider modifications to these two programs within the federal-state UI system to provide weekly income replacement for individuals unavailable to work or unemployed as a result of COVID-19.\nOn March 18, 2020, President Trump signed P.L. 116-127 (H.R. 6201), the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, into law. The UI provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act provide various types of assistance to states, including up to $1 billion in emergency administrative grant funding in calendar year 2020 for administrative purposes. This law also removes through December 2020 the current incentive in UI law for states to have a waiting week for their regular UC programs. \nOn March 24, 2020, President Trump signed P.L. 116-136 (H.R. 748), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act, into law. The UI provisions in the CARES Act include expanded benefit eligibility to the self-employed, independent contractors, gig economy workers, and other workers not covered under state UC programs through a new temporary Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which builds on DUA as a model and is authorized through December 2020. Other provisions expanded potential weeks of UI benefits through the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC; authorized through December 2020) and also augment all UI benefits with an additional $600 weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) benefit through July 2020.\nIn the 116th Congress, policymakers have introduced the following additional legislation: \nS. 165, H.R. 720, H.R. 725, H.R. 1117, and H.R. 4072\u2014related to Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) benefits in response to the partial government shutdown that occurred during FY2019; \nS. 136 and H.R. 556\u2014to provide self-employment and relocation assistance benefits;\nH.R. 1121\u2014to screen individuals for drug use;\nH.R. 1585\u2014to require that states consider an individual who quit employment because of sexual harassment, domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to be eligible for UC benefits; and \nH.R. 1759\u2014to amend Title III of the Social Security Act to extend Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) to all UC claimants; and\nH.R. 6199, H.R. 6207, H.R. 6271, S. 3476, S. 3482, and S. 3497\u2014to amend federal UI law in various ways in response to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). \nFor a brief overview of UC, see CRS In Focus IF10336, The Fundamentals of Unemployment Compensation. 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Congress may consider modifications to these two programs within the federal-state UI system to provide weekly income replacement for individuals unavailable to work or unemployed as a result of COVID-19.\nAdditional UI legislative issues faced by the 116th Congress include the following: \nthe effects of the FY2019 and FY2020 sequester order on UI programs and benefits,\nthe role of UI in providing temporary income replacement during a government shutdown, \nstate fiscal concerns related to financing UC benefits, \nreemployment services and eligibility assessments (RESEA),\npotential consideration of the UI proposals included in the President\u2019s FY2021 budget, and \ncongressional oversight related to a proposed UC drug testing rule reissued by DOL after previously being disapproved using the Congressional Review Act.\nIn the 116th Congress, policymakers have introduced the following legislation: \nS. 165, H.R. 720, H.R. 725, H.R. 1117, and H.R. 4072\u2014related to UCFE benefits in response to the partial government shutdown that occurred during FY2019; \nS. 136 and H.R. 556\u2014to provide self-employment and relocation assistance benefits;\nH.R. 1121\u2014to screen individuals for drug use;\nH.R. 1585\u2014to require that states consider an individual who quit employment because of sexual harassment, domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to be eligible for UC benefits; and \nH.R. 1759\u2014to amend Title III of the Social Security Act to extend RESEA to all UC claimants.\nH.R. 6201, H.R. 6199, and S. 3482\u2014to amend federal UI law in various ways in response to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). \nFor a brief overview of UC, see CRS In Focus IF10336, The Fundamentals of Unemployment Compensation. 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