Sec. 5. Designation of State unemployment tiers
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Subtitle A of title II of division B of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9021 et seq.) is amended— by redesignating sections 2115 and 2116 as sections 2116 and 2117, respectively; and by inserting after section 2114 the following: For the 3-month period beginning with February 2021, and for each subsequent 3-month period, the Secretary of Labor shall designate each State according to the following table: If the quarterly unemployment rate in a State with respect to a 3-month period is...
The State shall be designated for such 3-month period as a... less than 5.5 percent Tier I State equal to or greater than 5.5 percent but less than 6.5 percent Tier II State equal to or greater than 6.5 percent but less than 7.5 percent Tier III State equal to or greater than 7.5 percent but less than 8.5 percent Tier IV State equal to or greater than 8.5 percent but less than 9.5 percent Tier V State equal to or greater than 9.5 percent Tier VI State. For purposes of this section, the term quarterly unemployment rate means, with respect to a State for a 3-month period described in subsection (a), the average rate of total unemployment in such State (seasonally adjusted), to be determined by the Secretary of Labor, for the period consisting of the most recent 13-week period ending not less than 14 days before the beginning of such 3-month period.
For purposes of this section, the term State includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. .
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