By Siebert                                      H.B. No. 1720

      75R2289 PB-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a disqualification of eligibility for unemployment

 1-3     compensation benefits for periods of partial unemployment caused by

 1-4     a disciplinary reduction in hours.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 201.091, Labor Code, is amended by adding

 1-7     Subsection (d) to read as follows:

 1-8           (d)  Notwithstanding Subsection (b), an individual is not

 1-9     partially unemployed for purposes of this subtitle for a benefit

1-10     period in which the individual's working hours are reduced by the

1-11     individual's employer as a result of a disciplinary action.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-13     applies only to eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits

1-14     based on a claim filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or

1-15     after that date.  A claim filed before that date is governed by the

1-16     law in effect on the date that the claim was filed, and the former

1-17     law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.