73R1182 PB-D
          By Cuellar of Hidalgo                                   H.B. No. 32
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the payment of contributions for unemployment
    1-3  compensation benefits by certain employers engaged in agriculture.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 7(c)(9), Texas Unemployment Compensation
    1-6  Act (Article 5221b-5, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8              (9)  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act,
    1-9  an employer identified by the Commission as classified in the
   1-10  Standard Industrial Classification Manual as prepared by the office
   1-11  of management and budget, office of the President of the United
   1-12  States, as Number 0724 (cotton ginning) or Number 0761 (farm labor
   1-13  contractors and crew leaders), may elect to pay contributions at a
   1-14  total fixed rate of five and four-tenths percent (5.4%).  Payment
   1-15  of contributions at the fixed rate is in lieu of the employer's
   1-16  liability to pay contributions based on the general tax rate
   1-17  otherwise applicable to that employer, together with any deficit
   1-18  tax rate, replenishment tax rate, or other tax rate otherwise
   1-19  applicable to that employer under this Act.  To be eligible to pay
   1-20  the fixed rate, the employer must notify the Commission of the
   1-21  election in writing not later than December 31 of any year.  The
   1-22  election is effective for the calendar year succeeding the year in
   1-23  which the election is made.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.