DENIAL OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION TO ATHLETES, ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND RECIPIENTS OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

SEC. 314. DENIAL OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION TO ATHLETES, ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND RECIPIENTS OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS. (a) General Rule.—Subsection (a) of section 3304 of the Internal Bevenue Code of 1954 (relating to requirements for approval of State unemployment compensation laws) is amended by redesignating paragraph (13) as paragraph (16) and by inserting after paragraph (12) the following new paragraphs: “(13) compensation shall not be payable to any individual on the basis of any services, substantially all of which consist of participating in sports or athletic events or training or preparing to so participate, for any week which commences during the period between two successive sport seasons (or similar periods) if such individual performed such services in the first of such seasons (or similar periods) and there is a reasonable assurance that such individual will perform such services in the later of such seasons (or similar periods); “(14) (A) compensation shall not lie payable on the basis of services iterformed by an alien unless such alien is an individual who has been awfully admitted for permanent residence or otherwise is permanently residing in the United States under color of law (including an alien who is lawfully present, in the United States as a result of the application of the provisions of section 203(a) (7) or section 212(d) (5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), “(B) any data or information required of individuals applying for compensation to determine whether compensation is not payable to them because of their alien status shall te uniformly required from all applicants for compensation, and “(C) in the case of an individual whose application for compensation would otherwise be approved, no determination by the State agency that compensation to such individual is not payable because of his alien status shall be made except upon a preponderance of the evidence; “(15) the amount of compensation payable to an individual for any week which begins after September 30, 1979 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;”. (b) Effective Date.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to certifications of States for 1978 and subsequent years, or for 1979 and subsequent years in the ease of States the legislatures of which do not meet in a regular session which closes in the calendar year 1977.