Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 567 amends the Labor Code to modify the procedure for computing the maximum and minimum weekly unemployment benefit amount. The maximum weekly benefit is 47.6 percent and the minimum is 7.6 percent of the average weekly wage in covered employment in this state. The bill requires the Texas Workforce Commission to determine the average weekly wage in covered employment and to compute the maximum and minimum weekly benefit amounts not later than October 1 of each year based on the annual average weekly wage for the preceding year. The bill deletes provisions that set the maximum and minimum benefits at fixed dollar amounts and that calculated benefits using a fixed base year and the average weekly wage of manufacturing production workers.