Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act
Summary
Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act or the REEF Act This bill permanently exempts payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. Currently, this exemption ends 30 days after the termination of the COVID-19 national emergency period.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 2, 2021
Last action Mar 2, 2021
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
2
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Mar 2, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
upper
Mar 2, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 12 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Rob Portman
RRepublican
Co
Alex Padilla
DDemocratic
Co
Amy Klobuchar
DDemocratic
Co
Angus S. King, Jr.
IIndependent
Co
Benjamin L. Cardin
DDemocratic
Co
Deb Fischer
RRepublican
Co
Jerry Moran
RRepublican
Co
Jon Ossoff
DDemocratic
Co
Kevin Cramer
RRepublican
Co
Kyrsten Sinema
IIndependent
Co
Raphael G. Warnock
DDemocratic
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