By: Sims S.B. No. 636
73R5763 PB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.