By Oliveira H.B. No. 1027
74R2215 PB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain eligibility conditions for receipt of
1-3 unemployment compensation benefits.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 207.021(a), Labor Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Chapter 215, an unemployed
1-8 individual is eligible to receive benefits for a benefit period if
1-9 the individual:
1-10 (1) has registered for work at an employment office
1-11 and has continued to report to the employment office as required by
1-12 rules adopted by the commission;
1-13 (2) has made a claim for benefits under Section
1-14 208.001;
1-15 (3) is able to work;
1-16 (4) is available for work;
1-17 (5) for the individual's base period, has benefit wage
1-18 credits:
1-19 (A) in at least two calendar quarters; and
1-20 (B) in an amount not less than 37 times the
1-21 individual's benefit amount;
1-22 (6) after the beginning date of the individual's most
1-23 recent prior benefit year, if applicable, earned wages in an amount
1-24 equal to not less than six times the individual's benefit amount;
2-1 <and>
2-2 (7) has been totally or partially unemployed for a
2-3 waiting period of at least seven consecutive days; and
2-4 (8) participates in reemployment services, such as a
2-5 job search assistance service, if the individual has been
2-6 determined, according to a profiling system established by the
2-7 commission, to be likely to exhaust eligibility for regular
2-8 benefits and to need those services to obtain new employment,
2-9 unless:
2-10 (A) the individual has completed participation
2-11 in such a service; or
2-12 (B) there is reasonable cause, as determined by
2-13 the commission, for the individual's failure to participate in
2-14 those services.
2-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
2-16 applies only to eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits
2-17 based on a claim filed with the Texas Employment Commission on or
2-18 after that date. A claim filed before that date is governed by the
2-19 law in effect on the date that the claim was filed, and the former
2-20 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.