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.