By Oliveira H.B. No. 1388
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of an unemployment insurance benefit
1-3 year.
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(b)(4), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (4) "Benefit year," with respect to any individual means the
1-9 period of fifty-two (52) consecutive calendar weeks beginning with
1-10 the effective date of <day with respect to which> his first valid
1-11 initial claim <is filed> and, thereafter, the period of fifty-two
1-12 (52) consecutive calendar weeks beginning with the effective date
1-13 of <day with respect to which> his next valid initial claim <is
1-14 filed> after the termination of his last preceding benefit year.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.