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.