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PUBLIC LAW 102-164—NOV. 15, 1991 105 STAT. 1049 Public Law 102-164 102d Congress An Act To provide a program of emergency unemployment compensation, and for other Nov. 15, 1991 purposes. [H.R. 3575] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Emergency ' Unemployment SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 9°TMP??^^^^°" Act of 1991. This Act may be cited as the "Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991". TITLE I—EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION PROGRAM SEC. 101. FEDERAL -STATE AGREEMENTS. (a) IN GENERAL.— Any State which desires to do so may enter into and participate in an agreement under this Act with the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this Act referred to EIS the "Secretary"). Any State which is a party to an agreement under this Act may, upon providing 30 days written notice to the Secretary, terminate such agreement. (b) PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT.— Any agreement under subsection (a) shall provide that the State agency of the State will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation— (1) to individuals who— (A) have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under the State law, (B) have no rights to compensation (including both regular compensation and extended compensation) with respect to a week under such law or any other State unemployment compensation law or to compensation under any other Federal law (and are not paid or entitled to be paid any additional compensation under any State or Federal law), and (C) are not receiving compensation with respect to such week under the unemplo3ment compensation law of Canada, and (2) for any week of unemployment which begins in the individual's period of eligibility (as defined in section 106(a)(2)). (c) EXHAUSTION OF BENEFITS.— For purposes of subsection (b)(1)(A), an individual shall be deemed to have exhausted such individual's rights to regular compensation under a State law when— (1) no payments of regular compensation can be made under such law because such individual has received all regular compensation available to such individugd based on employment or wages during such individual's base period, or 49-194O-92-4:QL.3Part2