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.