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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