By: Bosse H.B. No. 747 72S10402 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the exclusion from coverage under the Texas 1-3 Unemployment Compensation Act of services performed by certain 1-4 securities representatives. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 19(g)(5), Texas Unemployment Compensation 1-7 Act (Article 5221b-17, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended 1-8 by H.B. Nos. 550, 784, and 2667, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1-9 Regular Session, 1991, is amended to read as follows: 1-10 (5) The term "employment" shall not include: 1-11 (A) Service with respect to which unemployment 1-12 compensation is payable under an Unemployment Compensation System 1-13 established by an Act of Congress; provided that the Commission is 1-14 hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the proper agencies 1-15 under such Act of Congress, which agreements shall become effective 1-16 ten (10) days after publication thereof in the manner provided in 1-17 subsection 11(b) of this Act for general rules, to provide 1-18 reciprocal treatment to individuals who have, after acquiring 1-19 potential rights to benefits under this Act, acquired rights to 1-20 unemployment compensation under such Act of Congress, or who have, 1-21 after acquiring potential rights to unemployment compensation under 1-22 such Act of Congress, acquired rights to benefits under this Act. 1-23 (B) Service performed by an individual as a 1-24 product demonstrator if: 2-1 (i) the service is performed under a 2-2 written contract between the individual and a person whose 2-3 principal business is obtaining the services of demonstrators for 2-4 third parties for product demonstration purposes; and 2-5 (ii) both in contract and in fact the 2-6 individual: 2-7 (I) is not treated as an employee 2-8 with respect to those services for federal unemployment tax 2-9 purposes; 2-10 (II) is compensated for each 2-11 demonstration, or the compensation is based on factors that relate 2-12 to the work performed; 2-13 (III) determines the method of 2-14 performing the service; 2-15 (IV) provides the vehicles used to 2-16 perform the service; 2-17 (V) is responsible for the 2-18 completion of a specific job and is liable for any failure to 2-19 complete the job; 2-20 (VI) is free to accept or reject 2-21 jobs from a product demonstrator business, and the principal 2-22 business has no control over where the individual works; 2-23 (VII) pays all expenses, and the 2-24 opportunity for profit or loss rests solely with the individual; 2-25 and 2-26 (VIII) is responsible for operating 2-27 costs, including fuel, repairs, supplies, and motor vehicle 3-1 insurance; 3-2 (C) Domestic service in a private home, local 3-3 college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority; 3-4 (D) Service performed by an individual in the 3-5 employ of his son, daughter, or spouse, and service performed by a 3-6 child under the age of twenty-one (21) years in the employ of his 3-7 father or mother; 3-8 (E) Service performed in the employ of a church, 3-9 convention or association of churches, or an organization which is 3-10 operated primarily for religious purposes and which is operated, 3-11 supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church or 3-12 convention or association of churches; 3-13 (F) Services performed in the employ of a 3-14 political subdivision or any instrumentality thereof which is 3-15 wholly owned by one (1) or more political subdivisions: 3-16 (i) as an elected official; 3-17 (ii) as a member of a legislative body; 3-18 (iii) as a member of the judiciary; 3-19 (iv) as an employee serving on a temporary 3-20 basis in case of fire, storm, snow, earthquake, flood, or similar 3-21 emergency; or 3-22 (v) in a position which, under or pursuant 3-23 to law, is designated as a major nontenured policy-making or 3-24 advisory position, or a policy-making or advisory position the 3-25 performance of the duties of which ordinarily does not require more 3-26 than eight (8) hours per week; 3-27 (G) Service performed in the employ of a foreign 4-1 government (including services as a consular or other officer or 4-2 employee, or a nondiplomatic representative); 4-3 (H) Service performed in the employ of an 4-4 instrumentality wholly owned by a foreign government (i) if the 4-5 service is of a character similar to that performed in foreign 4-6 countries by the employees of the United States Government or of an 4-7 instrumentality thereof; and (ii) if the Commission finds that the 4-8 United States Secretary of State has certified to the United States 4-9 Secretary of the Treasury that the foreign government, with respect 4-10 to whose instrumentality exemption is claimed, grants an equivalent 4-11 exemption with respect to similar services performed in the foreign 4-12 country by employees of the United States Government and of 4-13 instrumentalities thereof; 4-14 (I) Service performed as a student nurse in the 4-15 employ of a hospital or a nurses' training school by an individual 4-16 who is enrolled and is regularly attending classes in a nurses' 4-17 training school chartered or approved pursuant to State law; and 4-18 service performed as an intern in the employ of a hospital by an 4-19 individual who has completed a four-year course in a medical school 4-20 chartered or approved pursuant to State law; 4-21 (J) Service performed by an individual for a 4-22 person as an insurance agent or an insurance solicitor, if all such 4-23 service performed by such individual for such person is performed 4-24 for remuneration solely by way of commission; 4-25 (K) Service performed by an individual under the 4-26 age of eighteen (18) years in the delivery or distribution of 4-27 newspapers or shopping news, not including delivery or distribution 5-1 to any point for subsequent delivery or distribution; 5-2 (L) Service covered by an arrangement between 5-3 the Commission and the agency charged with the administration of 5-4 any other state or federal unemployment compensation law pursuant 5-5 to which all services performed by an individual for an employing 5-6 unit during the period covered by such employing unit's duly 5-7 approved election are deemed to be performed entirely within such 5-8 agency's state or under such federal law; 5-9 (M) Service performed in the employ of the 5-10 United States Government or an instrumentality of the United States 5-11 exempt under the Constitution of the United States from the 5-12 contributions imposed by this Act, except that to the extent that 5-13 the Congress of the United States shall permit states to require 5-14 any instrumentalities of the United States to make payments into an 5-15 unemployment fund under a state unemployment compensation law, all 5-16 of the provisions of this Act shall be applicable to such 5-17 instrumentalities, and to services performed for such 5-18 instrumentalities, in the same manner, to the same extent, and on 5-19 the same terms as to all other employers, employing units, 5-20 individuals, and services; provided, that if this State shall not 5-21 be certified for any year by the Social Security Board or successor 5-22 under Section 1603(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, the 5-23 payments required by such instrumentalities with respect to such 5-24 year shall be refunded by the Commission from the fund in the same 5-25 manner and within the same period as is provided in subsection 5-26 14(j) of this Act with respect to contributions erroneously 5-27 collected; 6-1 (N) Service performed by a duly ordained, 6-2 commissioned, or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of 6-3 his ministry or by a member of a religious order in the exercise of 6-4 duties required by such order; 6-5 (O) Service performed by a securities 6-6 representative who is compensated for the service exclusively on a 6-7 commission basis; 6-8 (P) Service performed in the employ of a 6-9 facility conducted for the purpose of carrying out a program of 6-10 rehabilitation for individuals whose earning capacity is impaired 6-11 by age or physical or mental deficiency or injury, or providing 6-12 remunerative work for individuals who because of their impaired 6-13 physical or mental capacity cannot be readily absorbed in the 6-14 competitive labor market by an individual receiving such 6-15 rehabilitative or remunerative work; 6-16 (Q) Service performed as part of an unemployment 6-17 work-relief or work-training program assisted or financed in whole 6-18 or in part by any federal agency or an agency of a state or 6-19 political subdivision thereof, by an individual receiving such work 6-20 relief or work training; 6-21 (R) Service performed by an inmate of a 6-22 custodial or penal institution which is owned or operated by the 6-23 State or a political subdivision thereof; 6-24 (S) Service performed in the employ of a school, 6-25 college, or university, if such service is performed by a student 6-26 who is enrolled and is regularly attending classes at such school, 6-27 college, or university; 7-1 (T) Service performed by an individual who is 7-2 enrolled at a nonprofit or public educational institution which 7-3 normally maintains a regular faculty and curriculum and normally 7-4 has a regularly organized body of students in attendance at the 7-5 place where its educational activities are carried on as a student 7-6 in a full-time program, taken for credit at such institution, which 7-7 combines academic instruction with work experience, if such service 7-8 is an integral part of such program, and such institution has so 7-9 certified to the employing unit, except that this subparagraph 7-10 shall not apply to service performed in a program established for 7-11 or on behalf of an employer or group of employers, service 7-12 performed in an apprenticeship training program, or service 7-13 performed by a teaching assistant; 7-14 (U) Service performed in the employ of a 7-15 hospital, if such service is performed by a patient of such 7-16 hospital; 7-17 (V) Service performed on a fishing vessel 7-18 normally having a crew of fewer than ten (10) if the crew member's 7-19 reimbursement for services performed is a share of the catch and 7-20 the services are determined not to be employment under the Federal 7-21 Unemployment Tax Act; and 7-22 (W) Service performed by an individual as a 7-23 direct seller if: 7-24 (i) the individual is engaged in the 7-25 business of in-person sales of consumer products to any buyer on a 7-26 buy-sell basis, a deposit-commission basis, or any similar basis 7-27 for resale in the home, or in a place other than in, or affiliated 8-1 with, a permanent retail establishment, or the individual is 8-2 engaged in the business of selling consumer products in the home or 8-3 in a place other than in, or affiliated with, a permanent retail 8-4 establishment; 8-5 (ii) substantially all the remuneration, 8-6 whether or not paid in cash, for the performance of the services is 8-7 directly related to sales or other output, including the 8-8 performance of services, rather than to the number of hours worked; 8-9 and 8-10 (iii) the services performed by the 8-11 individual are performed under a written contract between the 8-12 individual and the person for whom the services are performed, and 8-13 the contract provides that the individual is not treated as an 8-14 employee with respect to those services for federal tax purposes; 8-15 (X) Service performed by a full-time student in 8-16 the employ of an organized camp if the conditions in (i) below are 8-17 met. 8-18 (i) This paragraph applies if: 8-19 (I) such camp: 8-20 (a) did not operate for more 8-21 than seven (7) months in the calendar year and did not operate for 8-22 more than seven (7) months in the preceding calendar year, or 8-23 (b) had average gross receipts 8-24 for any six (6) months in the preceding calendar year which were 8-25 not more than 33 1/3 percent of its average gross receipts for the 8-26 other six (6) months in the preceding calendar year; and 8-27 (II) such full-time student 9-1 performed services in the employ of such camp for less than 9-2 thirteen (13) calendar weeks in such calendar year. 9-3 (ii) For purposes of this paragraph, an 9-4 individual shall be treated as a full-time student for any period: 9-5 (I) during which the individual is 9-6 enrolled as a full-time student at an educational institution, or 9-7 (II) which is between academic years 9-8 or terms if: 9-9 (a) the individual was 9-10 enrolled as a full-time student at an educational institution for 9-11 the immediately preceding academic year or term, and 9-12 (b) there is a reasonable 9-13 assurance that the individual will be so enrolled for the 9-14 immediately succeeding academic year or term after the period 9-15 described in Subparagraph (a); 9-16 (Y) Service performed by an individual as a real 9-17 estate broker or salesman if: 9-18 (i) the individual is engaged in 9-19 performing acts or transactions comprehended by the definition of 9-20 "real estate broker" in The Real Estate License Act (Article 6573a, 9-21 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); 9-22 (ii) the individual is licensed as a real 9-23 estate broker or salesman by the Texas Real Estate Commission; 9-24 (iii) substantially all the remuneration, 9-25 whether or not paid in cash, for the performance of the services is 9-26 directly related to sales or other output, including the 9-27 performance of services, rather than to the number of hours worked; 10-1 and 10-2 (iv) the services performed by the 10-3 individual are performed under a written contract between the 10-4 individual and the person for whom the services are performed, and 10-5 the contract provides that the individual is not treated as an 10-6 employee with respect to those services for federal tax purposes; 10-7 (Z) Service performed by an individual as an 10-8 instructor of persons licensed or seeking licensure as real estate 10-9 brokers or salesmen if: 10-10 (i) the individual is instructing an 10-11 educational program or course approved by the Texas Real Estate 10-12 Commission; and 10-13 (ii) the services performed by the 10-14 individual are performed under a written contract between the 10-15 individual and the person for whom the services are performed, and 10-16 the contract provides that the individual is not treated as an 10-17 employee with respect to those services for federal tax purposes. 10-18 (AA) Service performed for a private for-profit 10-19 delivery or courier service by an individual for compensation if: 10-20 (i) the individual: 10-21 (I) is free to accept or reject jobs 10-22 from a private for-profit delivery or courier service, and the 10-23 private for-profit delivery or courier service has no control over 10-24 when the individual works; 10-25 (II) is compensated for each 10-26 delivery, or the compensation is based on factors that relate to 10-27 the work performed, including receipt of a percentage of any rate 11-1 schedule or of a lawfully published tariff; 11-2 (III) pays all expenses, and the 11-3 opportunity for profit or loss rests solely with the individual; 11-4 (IV) is responsible for operating 11-5 costs, including fuel, repairs, supplies, and motor vehicle 11-6 insurance; 11-7 (V) determines the method of 11-8 performing the service, including selection of routes and order of 11-9 deliveries; 11-10 (VI) is responsible for the 11-11 completion of a specific job and is liable for any failure to 11-12 complete the job; 11-13 (VII) enters into a contract that 11-14 specifies the relationship of the individual to the private 11-15 for-profit delivery or courier service to be that of an independent 11-16 contractor and not that of an employee; and 11-17 (VIII) provides the vehicle used to 11-18 perform the service; and 11-19 (ii) the private for-profit delivery or 11-20 courier service operates exclusively within a commercial zone as 11-21 defined and prescribed by the Railroad Commission of Texas under 11-22 Section 1(g), Chapter 314, Acts of the 41st Legislature, Regular 11-23 Session, 1929 (Article 911b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). 11-24 (BB) Service performed by an individual at a 11-25 trade market for a wholesaler or sales representative of a 11-26 wholesaler or manufacturer of consumer goods under a written 11-27 contract, or as a salesman for a wholesaler or wholesalers of 12-1 consumer goods if such wholesaler or sales representative maintains 12-2 a regular or seasonal place of business at a trade market facility 12-3 in a city with a population of more than 750,000. 12-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 1991, and 12-5 applies only to benefit eligibility based on a claim for 12-6 unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with the Texas 12-7 Employment Commission on or after that date. A claim filed before 12-8 that date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the 12-9 claim was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that 12-10 purpose. 12-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 12-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 12-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 12-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 12-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.