26 U.S.C. § 3304
Approval of State laws
United States · Title 26 — INTERNAL REVENUE CODE · Status: effective
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- 26 U.S.C. § 3304, Approval of State laws, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/463315
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The Secretary of Labor shall approve any State law submitted to him, within 30 days of such submission, which he finds provides that—
all money withdrawn from the unemployment fund of the State shall be used solely in the payment of unemployment compensation, exclusive of expenses of administration, and for refunds of sums erroneously paid into such fund and refunds paid in accordance with the provisions of section 3305(b); except that—
with respect to amounts of covered unemployment compensation debt (as defined in section 6402(f)(4)) collected under section 6402(f)—
compensation shall not be denied in such State to any otherwise eligible individual for refusing to accept new work under any of the following conditions:
compensation is payable on the basis of service to which section 3309(a)(1) applies, in the same amount, on the same terms, and subject to the same conditions as compensation payable on the basis of other service subject to such law; except that—
with respect to services in any other capacity for an educational institution to which section 3309(a)(1) applies—
subject to subparagraph (B), the amount of compensation payable to an individual for any week which begins after March 31, 1980, and which begins in a period with respect to which such individual is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or any other similar periodic payment which is based on the previous work of such individual shall be reduced (but not below zero) by an amount equal to the amount of such pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other payment, which is reasonably attributable to such week except that—
the requirements of this paragraph shall apply to any pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other similar periodic payment only if—
The Secretary of Labor shall, upon approving such law, notify the governor of the State of his approval.
On October 31 of each taxable year the Secretary of Labor shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury each State whose law he has previously approved, except that he shall not certify any State which, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency, the Secretary of Labor finds has amended its law so that it no longer contains the provisions specified in subsection (a) or has with respect to the 12-month period ending on such October 31 failed to comply substantially with any such provision in such subsection. No finding of a failure to comply substantially with any provision in paragraph (5) of subsection (a) shall be based on an application or interpretation of State law (1) until all administrative review provided for under the laws of the State has been exhausted, or (2) with respect to which the time for judicial review provided by the laws of the State has not expired, or (3) with respect to which any judicial review is pending. On October 31 of any taxable year, the Secretary of Labor shall not certify any State which, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency, the Secretary of Labor finds has failed to amend its law so that it contains each of the provisions required by law to be included therein (including provisions relating to the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (or any amendments thereto) as required under subsection (a)(11)), or has, with respect to the twelve-month period ending on such October 31, failed to comply substantially with any such provision.
If at any time the Secretary of Labor has reason to believe that a State whose law he has previously approved may not be certified under subsection (c), he shall promptly so notify the governor of such State.
Whenever—
For purposes of subsection (a)(6), the term “institution of higher education” means an educational institution in any State which—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Tax Reform Act of 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 1977House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An Act to extend certain Social Security Act provisions, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Social Security Amendments of 1977House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to improve retirement income security under private multiemployer pension plans by strengthening the funding requirements for those plans, to authorize plan preservation measures for financially troubled multiemployer pension plans, and to revise the manner in which the pension plan termination insurance provisions apply to multiemployer plans, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Social Security Amendments of 1983House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Tax Reform Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Immigration Act of 1990
- Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991
- Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992
- North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act
- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
- Balanced Budget Act of 1997
- Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002House: 216–214Senate: no recorded tally
- Pension Protection Act of 2006
- SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018House: 256–167Senate: no recorded tally