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Union Calendar No. 2
119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 1156
[Report No. 119–6]
To amend the CARES Act to extend the statute of limitations for fraud
under certain unemployment programs, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY10, 2025
Mr. S
MITHof Missouri (for himself, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. YAKYM, Mr. BEANof
Florida, Mr. M
ORAN, Ms. VANDUYNE, Mr. FEENSTRA, Mr. CAREY, Mr.
M
ILLERof Ohio, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. BUCHANAN, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. SMITH
of Nebraska, Mrs. M
ILLERof West Virginia, Mr. SMUCKER, Mr.
K
USTOFF, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. MOOREof Utah, Mr.
E
STES, Mr. KELLYof Pennsylvania, Mr. HERNof Oklahoma, Mr.
A
RRINGTON, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mrs. FISCHBACH, and Mr. SCHWEIKERT)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means
F
EBRUARY25, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 10, 2025]
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A BILL
To amend the CARES Act to extend the statute of limita-
tions for fraud under certain unemployment programs,
and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pandemic Unemploy-4
ment Fraud Enforcement Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR 6
FRAUD BY INDIVIDUALS UNDER CERTAIN UN-7
EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS. 8
(a) P
ANDEMICUNEMPLOYMENTASSISTANCE.—Section 9
2102 of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9021) is amended— 10
(1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection 11
(i); and 12
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following 13
new subsection: 14
‘‘(h) S
TATUTE OFLIMITATIONS.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 16
provision of law and subject to paragraph (2), any 17
criminal prosecution or civil enforcement action for a 18
violation of, or conspiracy to violate, section 371, 641, 19
1028A, 1029, 1341, 1343, 1344, 1349, 1956, or 1957 20
of title 18, United States Code, or section 3729 or 21
3801 of title 31, United States Code, with respect to 22
any unemployment compensation claim funded in 23
whole or in part by pandemic unemployment assist-24
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ance under this section shall be brought not later than 1
10 years after the date of the violation or conspiracy. 2
‘‘(2) E
XCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) shall not 3
apply with respect to a criminal prosecution or civil 4
enforcement action if the statute of limitations appli-5
cable to such criminal prosecution or civil enforce-6
ment action expired prior to the date of enactment of 7
the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement 8
Act.’’. 9
(b) F
EDERALPANDEMICUNEMPLOYMENTCOMPENSA-10
TION ANDMIXEDEARNERUNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSA-11
TION.—Section 2104(f) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 12
9023(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 13
paragraph: 14
‘‘(5) S
TATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.— 15
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 16
other provision of law and subject to subpara-17
graph (B), any criminal prosecution or civil en-18
forcement action for a violation of, or conspiracy 19
to violate, section 371, 641, 1028A, 1029, 1341, 20
1343, 1344, 1349, 1956, or 1957 of title 18, 21
United States Code, or section 3729 or 3801 of 22
title 31, United States Code, with respect to any 23
unemployment compensation claim funded in 24
whole or in part by Federal Pandemic Unem-25
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ployment Compensation or Mixed Earner Unem-1
ployment Compensation under this section shall 2
be brought not later than 10 years after the date 3
of the violation or conspiracy. 4
‘‘(B) E
XCEPTION.—Subparagraph (A) shall 5
not apply with respect to a criminal prosecution 6
or civil enforcement action if the statute of limi-7
tations applicable to such criminal prosecution 8
or civil enforcement action expired prior to the 9
date of enactment of the Pandemic Unemploy-10
ment Fraud Enforcement Act.’’. 11
(c) P
ANDEMICEMERGENCYUNEMPLOYMENT COM-12
PENSATION.—Section 2107(e) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 13
9025(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 14
paragraph: 15
‘‘(5) S
TATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.— 16
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 17
other provision of law and subject to subpara-18
graph (B), any criminal prosecution or civil en-19
forcement action for a violation of, or conspiracy 20
to violate, section 371, 641, 1028A, 1029, 1341, 21
1343, 1344, 1349, 1956, or 1957 of title 18, 22
United States Code, or section 3729 or 3801 of 23
title 31, United States Code, with respect to any 24
unemployment compensation claim funded in 25
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whole or in part by Pandemic Emergency Un-1
employment Compensation under this section 2
shall be brought not later than 10 years after the 3
date of the violation or conspiracy. 4
‘‘(B) E
XCEPTION.—Subparagraph (A) shall 5
not apply with respect to a criminal prosecution 6
or civil enforcement action if the statute of limi-7
tations applicable to such criminal prosecution 8
or civil enforcement action expired prior to the 9
date of enactment of the Pandemic Unemploy-10
ment Fraud Enforcement Act.’’. 11
SEC. 3. BUDGET OFFSET. 12
Out of the unobligated balances of amounts made 13
available by section 2118(a) of title II of division A of Pub-14
lic Law 116-136, as added by section 9032 of Public Law 15
117-2, $5,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 16
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 17
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 18
the date of enactment of this Act. 19
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119
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CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
H. R. 1156
[Report No. 119–6]
A BILL
To amend the CARES Act to extend the statute of
limitations for fraud under certain unemployment
programs, and for other purposes.
F
EBRUARY
25, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
and ordered to be printed
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