By Moffat H.B. No. 1233 74R3423 PB-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to withholding for federal income tax purposes from 1-3 unemployment compensation benefits. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 207, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subchapter F to read as follows: 1-7 SUBCHAPTER F. TAX WITHHOLDING 1-8 Sec. 207.101. WITHHOLDING FROM BENEFITS FOR FEDERAL INCOME 1-9 TAX. (a) An eligible individual may elect to have federal income 1-10 tax withheld from benefits. The commission shall withhold federal 1-11 income taxes from the benefits of an individual who elects the 1-12 withholding as provided by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (26 1-13 U.S.C. Section 3301 et seq.) and Section 303, Social Security Act 1-14 (42 U.S.C. Section 503), as those laws are amended by P.L. 103-465. 1-15 (b) The commission may not withhold federal income tax from 1-16 benefits as provided by this section until January 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.