By Craddick H.B. No. 681 74R1180 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to employee misconduct under the unemployment compensation 1-3 system. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 201.012(a), Labor Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) "Misconduct" means mismanagement of a position of 1-8 employment by action or inaction, neglect that jeopardizes the life 1-9 or property of another, intentional wrongdoing or malfeasance, 1-10 intentional violation of a law, or violation of a policy or rule 1-11 adopted to ensure the orderly work and the safety of employees. 1-12 The term includes the inability of an employee, based on objective 1-13 standards, to complete the work assigned by the employer or fulfill 1-14 the responsibilities required by the position of employment. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-16 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that 1-17 is filed with the Texas Employment Commission on or after that 1-18 date. A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in 1-19 effect on the date that the claim is filed, and the former law is 1-20 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.