By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 523
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to an exception to unemployment compensation for on-call
    1-2  governmental employees.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 201, Subsection
    1-5  201.063(a)(1) of the Labor Code is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include:
    1-7              (1)  service in the employ of a political subdivision
    1-8  or of an instrumentality of a political subdivision that is wholly
    1-9  owned by one or more political subdivisions:
   1-10                    (A)  as an elected official;
   1-11                    (B)  as a member of a legislative body;
   1-12                    (C)  as a member of the judiciary;
   1-13                    (D)  as a temporary employee in case of fire,
   1-14  storm, snow, earthquake, flood, or similar emergency; <or>
   1-15                    (E)  in a position that is designated under law
   1-16  as a major nontenured policy-making or advisory position or a
   1-17  policy-making or advisory position that ordinarily does not require
   1-18  more than eight hours of service each week; or
   1-19                    (F)  as a person who works only on an on-call,
   1-20  as-needed basis;
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.