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.