1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Act . 2. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (a) Definitions In this section: (1) COVID-19 The term COVID-19 means the 2019 Novel Coronavirus or 2019-nCoV. (2) COVID-19 public health emergency The term COVID-19 public health emergency means the public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on January 27, 2020, with respect to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. (3) Covered individual The term covered individual — (A) means an individual who— (i) is not eligible for regular compensation under State or Federal law, including an individual who has exhausted all rights to regular unemployment under State or Federal law; and (ii) provides self-certification that the individual is otherwise able to work and available for work within the meaning of applicable State law, except the individual is unemployed, partially unemployed, or unable or unavailable to work because— (I) the individual has been diagnosed with COVID-19 or has reason to believe the individual has been exposed to COVID-19; (II) a member of the individual's household has been diagnosed with COVID-19; (III) the individual needs to provide care for a family member or a member of the individual's household who has been diagnosed with COVID-19; (IV) the school or day care the individual's child attends is closed due to a COVID-19 outbreak and the individual is unable to find alternative childcare; (V) the individual is unable to reach the place of employment because of a quarantine imposed as a direct result of a COVID-19 outbreak; (VI) the individual is unable to reach the place of employment because the individual self-quarantines to protect themselves or others as a direct result of a COVID-19 outbreak; (VII) the individual was scheduled to begin employment and is unable to reach the job as a direct result of a COVID-19 outbreak