H.B. No. 1388
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the definition of a "benefit year" under the Texas
    1-3  Unemployment Compensation Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 19(b)(4), Texas Unemployment Compensation
    1-6  Act (Article 5221b-17, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-7  to read as follows:
    1-8              (4)  "Benefit year," with respect to any individual
    1-9  means the period of fifty-two (52) consecutive calendar weeks
   1-10  beginning with the effective date of <day with respect to which>
   1-11  his first valid initial claim <is filed> and, thereafter, the
   1-12  period of fifty-two (52) consecutive calendar weeks beginning with
   1-13  the effective date of <day with respect to which> his next valid
   1-14  initial claim <is filed> after the termination of his last
   1-15  preceding benefit year.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-17  applies only to an initial claim for unemployment compensation
   1-18  benefits that is filed with the Texas Employment Commission on or
   1-19  after that date.  An initial claim filed before that date is
   1-20  governed by the law in effect on the date that the claim was filed,
   1-21  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.