1-1 By: Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 1030
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
1-3 April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Economic Development; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to extended benefits for unemployment compensation.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 209.041, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-11 as follows:
1-12 Sec. 209.041. ELIGIBILITY FOR EXTENDED BENEFITS. An
1-13 individual is eligible to receive extended benefits for a benefit
1-14 period of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period if,
1-15 with respect to the benefit period, the individual:
1-16 (1) has exhausted all regular benefits; <and>
1-17 (2) satisfies the requirements of this subtitle for
1-18 the receipt of regular benefits that are applicable to an
1-19 individual claiming extended benefits, including not being
1-20 disqualified for the receipt of benefits; and
1-21 (3) has within the individual's base period received
1-22 benefit wage credits for employment by employers in an amount not
1-23 less than:
1-24 (A) 40 times the individual's weekly benefit
1-25 amount; or
1-26 (B) 1-1/2 times the individual's high-quarter
1-27 benefit wage credits.
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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