By Goodman H.B. No. 1398
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exception to unemployment compensation for on-call
1-3 governmental employees.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 201, Subsection
1-6 201.063(a)(1) of the Labor Code is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) In this subtitle, "employment" does not include:
1-8 (1) service in the employ of a political subdivision
1-9 or of an instrumentality of a political subdivision that is wholly
1-10 owned by one or more political subdivisions:
1-11 (A) as an elected official;
1-12 (B) as a member of a legislative body;
1-13 (C) as a member of the judiciary;
1-14 (D) as a temporary employee in case of fire,
1-15 storm, snow, earthquake, flood, or similar emergency; <or>
1-16 (E) in a position that is designated under law
1-17 as a major nontenured policy-making or advisory position or a
1-18 policy-making or advisory position that ordinarily does not require
1-19 more than eight hours of service each week; or
1-20 (F) as an employee whose condition of employment
1-21 is that the person works only on an on-call, as-needed basis;
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.