By Ratliff S.B. No. 1702
74R11457 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain requirements for eligibility for unemployment
1-3 compensation benefits and to employer chargebacks for those
1-4 benefits.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 201.011, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-7 Subdivision (26) to read as follows:
1-8 (26) "Last work" means an individual's most recent
1-9 employment with an employer.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 204.021, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-11 as follows:
1-12 Sec. 204.021. Chargebacks. <(a)> The amount of benefits
1-13 paid to a claimant for a benefit year shall be charged to the
1-14 account <accounts> of <each of> the employer for whom the claimant
1-15 last worked <claimant's employers> during the claimant's base
1-16 period. The chargebacks of an employer for a calendar quarter are
1-17 the benefits paid to all of the employer's employees or former
1-18 employees during that quarter.
1-19 <(b) The chargeback of benefits of a claimant who has two or
1-20 more employers during the claimant's base period is allocated among
1-21 those employers according to the proportion of the total of the
1-22 claimant's benefit wage credits paid during the base period by each
1-23 employer.>
1-24 SECTION 3. Section 207.052(a), Labor Code, is amended to
2-1 read as follows:
2-2 (a) An individual is disqualified for benefits for a period
2-3 of unemployment for which the individual left the individual's last
2-4 <most recent> work to attend an established educational
2-5 institution.
2-6 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
2-7 applies only to benefit eligibility or employer liability for a
2-8 claim for unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with the
2-9 Texas Employment Commission on or after that date. A claim filed
2-10 before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the
2-11 claim was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-12 purpose.
2-13 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.