By: Haywood S.B. No. 70 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the eligibility of substitute teachers for unemployment 1-2 compensation benefits. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 201, Labor Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 201.078 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 201.078. SERVICE BY SUBSTITUTE TEACHER. In this 1-7 subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed for a 1-8 school district by an individual employed as a substitute for a 1-9 regularly employed teacher if: 1-10 (1) the individual hired as a substitute teacher is 1-11 notified in writing by the school district at the time of hiring 1-12 that the position is temporary; and 1-13 (2) there is no reasonable assurance that the 1-14 individual will be offered employment on more than a day-to-day 1-15 basis. 1-16 SECTION 2. Except as provided by Section 3 of this Act, this 1-17 Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and applies only to a claim for 1-18 unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with the Texas 1-19 Workforce Commission on or after that date. A claim filed before 1-20 that date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the 1-21 claim was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-22 purpose. 1-23 SECTION 3. Section 201.078, Labor Code, as added by this 2-1 Act, is contingent on the passage of federal legislation 2-2 establishing the ineligibility of certain substitute teachers to 2-3 receive unemployment compensation benefits. If that federal 2-4 legislation is not enacted, Section 201.078, Labor Code, as added 2-5 by this Act, has no effect. 2-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.