By Haywood                                              S.B. No. 70

      75R1065 PB-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the eligibility of substitute teachers for unemployment

 1-3     compensation benefits.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 201, Labor Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Section 201.078 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 201.078.  SERVICE BY SUBSTITUTE TEACHER.  In this

 1-8     subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed for a

 1-9     school district by an individual employed as a substitute for a

1-10     regularly employed teacher if:

1-11                 (1)  the individual hired as a substitute teacher is

1-12     notified in writing by the school district at the time of hire that

1-13     the position is temporary; and

1-14                 (2)  there is no reasonable assurance that the

1-15     individual will be offered employment on more than a day-to-day

1-16     basis.

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-18     applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that

1-19     is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.

1-20     A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on

1-21     the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued

1-22     in effect for that purpose.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

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

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.