By Siebert                                      H.B. No. 1777

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to notice and protest rights of certain reimbursing

 1-3     employers and governmental employers under the unemployment

 1-4     compensation system.

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

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 205, Labor Code, is amended

 1-7     by adding Section 205.0115 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 205.0115.  NOTICE AND PROTEST RIGHTS OF CERTAIN

 1-9     REIMBURSING OR GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYERS.  Notwithstanding Section

1-10     205.011 or any other provision of this subtitle, a reimbursing

1-11     employer or governmental employer is entitled to the notice and

1-12     protest rights afforded an employer who pays contributions in lieu

1-13     of the person for whom the claimant last worked if:

1-14                 (1)  the claimant's last work was for a period of less

1-15     than six weeks;

1-16                 (2)  the claimant's last work was not performed for a

1-17     person who meets the definition of an employer under Subchapter C,

1-18     Chapter 201; and

1-19                 (3)  the reimbursing employer or governmental employer

1-20     was the claimant's last employer in the base period.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-22     applies only to notice and protest rights of an employer regarding

1-23     a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with

1-24     the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.  Notice and

 2-1     protest rights regarding a claim filed before that date are

 2-2     governed by the law in effect on the date that the claim was filed,

 2-3     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.