By Siebert H.B. No. 1777 75R2284 JMM-F 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.