Georgia Code
Article 7 - Benefits
§ 34-8-197. Eligibility Requirements for Extended Benefits

However, no extended benefit period may begin by reason of a state “on” indicator before the fourteenth week following the end of a prior extended benefit period which was in effect with respect to this state. With respect to determining whether the state is in an extended benefit period beginning on November 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021, the requirement that no extended benefit period may begin before the fourteenth week following the end of a prior extended benefit period which was in effect shall be disregarded.
History. Code 1981, § 34-8-197 , enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 34; Ga. L. 1992, p. 776, § 5; Ga. L. 2009, p. 139, § 9/HB 581; Ga. L. 2010, p. 878, § 34/HB 1387; Ga. L. 2011, p. 382, §§ 1, 2/HB 500; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 34/HB 323; Ga. L. 2021, p. 754, § 3/HB 532.
The 2017 amendment, effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “provided, further, that if” for “provided, further, if” twice in paragraph (c)(2).
The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, rewrote subsection (a); substituted “subparagraph (a)(3)(C)” for “subdivision (a)(3)(B)(i)(I) or, if applicable, subdivision (a)(3)(B)(ii)(I)” in the middle of subsection (m); and substituted “under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, as amended” for “and provided pursuant to either Section 2005(a) of Public Law 111-5 or any extension thereof that does not impose any new condition upon receipt of such federal funding, without regard to the extension of federal sharing for certain claims as provided under Section 2005(c) of such law” at the end of subsection (n).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, “subsection (l) of this Code section” was substituted for “paragraph (1) of this section” in the introductory language of subsection (e).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2009, p. 139, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Works Job Creation and Protection Act of 2009.’ ”
Ga. L. 2009, p. 139, § 12, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the Commissioner of Labor may delay the implementation of the 2009 amendment for a period of time not to extend beyond May 25, 2009, if the Commissioner of Labor determines that it is not reasonably practicable to commence implementation of such section as of April 21, 2009.
U.S. Code.
Section 3304 of the federal Internal Revenue Code, referred to in paragraph (a)(6), is codified at 26 U.S.C. § 3304 ; the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, referred to in subparagraph (a)(2)(c)(i), is codified at 45 U.S.C. §§ 351-369; Section 6(a)(1) of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, referred to in subparagraph (j)(4)(A), is codified at 29 U.S.C. § 206 (a)(1).

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