; and (ii) if for any 3-month period described in section 2115(a) the national unemployment rate (as determined by the Secretary of Labor for the base period consisting of the most recent 13-week period ending not less than 14 days before the beginning of such quarter) is less than 5.5 percent and has decreased for at least the last 2 months of such 3-month period, the applicable number of weeks with respect to a State designated under section 2115(a) as a Tier I State shall be zero in any case in which the reference week of a covered individual ends in any subsequent 3-month period. (B) Tiered extensions The table provided in this subparagraph is as follows: If the reference week of a covered individual ends in a 3-month period for which the State has been designated under section 2115(a) as a... The applicable number of weeks for the covered individual is... Tier I State or Tier II State 13 Tier III State 26 Tier IV State 39 Tier V State 52 Tier VI State 65. (C) Reference week For purposes of this paragraph, the term reference week of a covered individual means the 1st week ending after January 31, 2021, for which the covered individual is eligible for assistance under an agreement with a State under this section. . (b) Eligibility expansion (1) In general Section 2102(a)(3) of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9021(a)(3) ) is amended to read as follows: (3) Covered individual The term covered individual means an individual who is not eligible for regular compensation under State or Federal law or pandemic emergency unemployment compensation under section 2107 and who— (A) (i) has exhausted all rights to such regular compensation and pandemic emergency unemployment compensation (within the meaning of section 2107(a)(3)); and (ii) would be eligible for regular compensation but for the exhaustion of such rights