Temporary Extension Act of 2010
Public Law 111-144 · H.R. 4691 · 111th Congress · began in the House
Signed by Barack Obama (D) on Mar 2, 2010 · Economics and Public Finance
Sponsor: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY-15)
Cosponsors (4): Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. George Miller,
Passage votesYeaNay
- HouseVoice vote
- SenateRecorded vote: 78 yea, 19 nay78–19
Data notes
The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.
Summary
The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.
Temporary Extension Act of 2010 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA). Extends the final date for entering a federal-state agreement under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through April 5, 2010. Postpones the termination of the program until September 4, 2010.
Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until April 5, 2010: (1) federal-state agreements increasing regular unemployment compensation payments to individuals; and (2) requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.
Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and September 4, 2010, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law provides for payment of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.)
Requires specified transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the EUCA to fund the extension of the EUC program.
(Sec. 3) Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to extend through March 31, 2010, the eligibility of a qualified beneficiary for COBRA (health insurance continuation benefits under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985) continuation coverage and premium assistance.
Redefines "premium assistance eligible individual'' for COBRA continuation coverage to treat as a qualifying event for such coverage the involuntary termination of employment after enactment of this Act of any qualified beneficiary who did not make (or who made and discontinued) an election of such coverage on the basis of a reduction of hours of employment.
(Sec. 4) Extends specified appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010 for continued extension or reauthorization of certain surface transportation programs through the earlier of March 28, 2010, or enactment into law of an Act to extend or reauthorize such programs.
Declares that such extension shall not apply if an extension of such programs and authorities for a longer term is enacted before enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 5) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through March 31, 2010: (1) the 0% update to the conversion factor in the Medicare physican payment computation; and (2) the Medicare physical therapy services caps exceptions process.
(Sec. 7) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 to extend the use of 2009 poverty guidelines through March 31, 2010. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from publishing updated poverty guidelines for 2010 until after such date.
(Sec. 8) Amends the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010 to extend through March 28, 2010, the national flood insurance program.
(Sec. 9) Amends the ARRA to extend through March 28, 2010, the small business loan guarantee program. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 10) Extends through March 28, 2010, the adjustment of royalty fees for the secondary transmission of the primary analog transmissions of network stations and superstations. Extends through such date the moratorium on copyright liability for subscribers not receiving a signal of Grade A intensity of a local network television broadcast station and receiving signals of network stations affiliated with the same network, if such subscribers had satellite service of such network signal terminated between July 11, 1998, and October 31, 1999.
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend through March 28, 2010, the exemption of a subscriber from the originating station consent requirement for retransmission of broadcasting station signals if the subscriber receives the retransmitted signals directly to a home satellite antenna, is located outside the station's local market, and resides in an unserved household.
Extends through March 29, 2010, the requirement that certain Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibit: (1) a television broadcast station that provides retransmission consent from engaging in exclusive contracts for carriage or failing to negotiate in good faith; and (2) a multichannel video programming distributor from failing to negotiate in good faith for retransmission consent.
(Sec. 11) Designates this Act, except Sec. 5, as an emergency in the House of Representatives pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, and in the Senate as an emergency requirement.
Who voted for it
Every senator of the 111th Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 78 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.
78 yea19 nay3 present or did not vote
Democrats who voted yea(57)
Sen. Bernie SandersD-VT
Sen. Sheldon WhitehouseD-RI
Sen. Tom HarkinD-IA
Sen. Richard DurbinD-IL
Sen. Roland BurrisD-IL
Sen. Jack ReedD-RI
Sen. Sherrod BrownD-OH
Sen. Patrick LeahyD-VT
Sen. Benjamin CardinD-MD
Sen. Al FrankenD-MN
Sen. Daniel AkakaD-HI
Sen. Kirsten GillibrandD-NY
Sen. Carl LevinD-MI
Sen. John KerryD-MA
Sen. Barbara MikulskiD-MD
Sen. Daniel InouyeD-HI
Sen. Chuck SchumerD-NY- Sen. Edward KaufmanD-DE
Sen. Jeff MerkleyD-OR
Sen. Tom UdallD-NM
Sen. Christopher DoddD-CT
Sen. Bob MenendezD-NJ
Sen. Debbie StabenowD-MI
Sen. Bob CaseyD-PA
Sen. Tim JohnsonD-SD
Sen. Jay RockefellerD-WV
Sen. Barbara BoxerD-CA
Sen. Dianne FeinsteinD-CA
Sen. Ron WydenD-OR
Sen. Harry ReidD-NV
Sen. Arlen SpecterR-PA
Sen. Jeff BingamanD-NM
Sen. Patty MurrayD-WA
Sen. Jeanne ShaheenD-NH
Sen. Byron DorganD-ND
Sen. Maria CantwellD-WA
Sen. Kent ConradD-ND
Sen. Herb KohlD-WI
Sen. Thomas CarperD-DE
Sen. Mary LandrieuD-LA
Sen. Max BaucusD-MT
Sen. Mark BegichD-AK
Sen. Mark UdallD-CO
Sen. Russell FeingoldD-WI
Sen. Bill NelsonD-FL
Sen. Mark WarnerD-VA
Sen. Jon TesterD-MT
Sen. Kay HaganD-NC
Sen. Michael BennetD-CO
Sen. Joseph LiebermanD-CT
Sen. Amy KlobucharD-MN
Sen. Mark PryorD-AR
Sen. Jim WebbD-VA
Sen. Claire McCaskillD-MO
Sen. Blanche LincolnD-AR
Sen. Evan BayhD-IN
Sen. Ben NelsonD-NE
Republicans who voted yea(21)
Sen. Susan CollinsR-ME
Sen. Olympia SnoweR-ME
Sen. George VoinovichR-OH
Sen. Scott BrownR-MA
Sen. Lisa MurkowskiR-AK
Sen. Kit BondR-MO
Sen. Richard LugarR-IN
Sen. Thad CochranR-MS- Sen. George LeMieuxR-FL
Sen. Richard ShelbyR-AL
Sen. Chuck GrassleyR-IA
Sen. Roger WickerR-MS
Sen. Sam BrownbackR-KS
Sen. Lindsey GrahamR-SC
Sen. Pat RobertsR-KS
Sen. Johnny IsaksonR-GA
Sen. Saxby ChamblissR-GA
Sen. David VitterR-LA
Sen. John McCainR-AZ
Sen. Jon KylR-AZ
Sen. Jim InhofeR-OK
Data notes
The Senate’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 429 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.
Committees
The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.





Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · House · referred toSubcommittee: Highways and Transit Subcommittee

Data notes
A committee links to its page only where it exists in the current Congress; older and renamed committees are named without a link.
Related bills
17 bills the Library of Congress relates to this one.
H.R. 3404Related billText similarities
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009
H.R. 3548 · became Public Law 111-92Related billText similarities
Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009
H.R. 3756Related billText similarities
Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009
H.R. 4183Related billText similarities
Helping Unemployed Workers Act
H.R. 4707Related bill
Unemployment Insurance Extension Act of 2010
H.R. 4851 · became Public Law 111-157Related billText similarities
Continuing Extension Act of 2010
H.R. 5453Related bill
Protecting Against Indebting our Descendants through Fully Offset Relief (PAID FOR) Temporary Extension Act of 2010
H.R. 6419Related bill
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continuation Act
H.R. 6556Related bill
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act
S. 1647Related billText similarities
Assistance for Unemployed Workers Extension Act
S. 1699Related billText similarities
Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009
S. 2831Related billText similarities
Helping Unemployed Workers Act
S. 3153Related billText similarities
Continuing Extension Act of 2010
S. 3173Related bill
Continuing Extension Act of 2010
S. 3420Related bill
Protecting Against Indebting our Descendants through Fully Offset Relief (PAID FOR) Temporary Extension Act of 2010
S. 3981Related bill
Unemployment Insurance Stabilization Act of 2010
S. 3990Related bill
Emergency Unemployment Benefits Extension Act of 2010
Data notes
Related bills are identified by the Congressional Research Service, the House and the Senate: companion and identical bills, bills with similar text, bills that were folded into this law, and rules that brought it to the floor. A bill that is itself a public law in this site’s data links here; the others link to Congress.gov.
Timeline
From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 26 actions.
- Mar 2, 2010Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 111-144.
- Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
- FloorFloor · Presented to President.
- FloorFloor · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- FloorFloor · Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 78 - 19. Record Vote Number: 32.Senate roll call 32
- FloorFloor · Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
- OtherOther · Cleared for White House.
- Mar 1, 2010CalendarCalendar · Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 278.
- Feb 26, 2010CalendarCalendar · Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
- Feb 25, 2010FloorFloor · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- FloorFloor · On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
- FloorFloor · DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4691.
- FloorFloor · Considered under suspension of the rules.
- FloorFloor · Mr. McDermott moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- CommitteeCommittee · Received in the Senate.
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Budget
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Judiciary
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Small Business
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Financial Services
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Education and Labor
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, Small Business, the Judiciary, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Spe…
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Ways and Means
- IntroducedIntroduced · Introduced in House
Data notes
Every action the Library of Congress lists for the bill, from introduction to signing, plus the dated committee hearings. The source lists many steps twice (the chamber’s own entry and the Library of Congress copy, or a presidential and a became-law entry with the same words); those are shown once. Amendments are listed in their own section.
Amendments
1 amendment offered to the bill, with the last recorded step of each.
- Ruled out of order
S.Amdt. 3355SenateSen. Jim BunningR-KY· offered Mar 2, 2010Ruled out of order
In the nature of a substitute.
Mar 2, 2010: Amendment SA 3355 ruled out of order by the chair.
Data notes
Amendments offered to this bill in either chamber, as the Library of Congress records them: each with a status read from its last recorded step: agreed to, rejected, withdrawn, ruled out of order, fell with another amendment, or offered with no vote recorded (most Senate amendments are only ever offered). The wording of each amendment is the source’s. Amendments to amendments and amendments to other bills are not listed.
Official record
The bill’s full text is on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.