1-1 By: Haywood S.B. No. 70 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 1996; January 14, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development; 1-4 April 4, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; April 4, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 70 By: Haywood 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the eligibility of substitute teachers for unemployment 1-11 compensation benefits. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 201, Labor Code, is amended 1-14 by adding Section 201.078 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 201.078. SERVICE BY SUBSTITUTE TEACHER. In this 1-16 subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed for a 1-17 school district by an individual employed as a substitute for a 1-18 regularly employed teacher if: 1-19 (1) the individual hired as a substitute teacher is 1-20 notified in writing by the school district at the time of hiring 1-21 that the position is temporary; and 1-22 (2) there is no reasonable assurance that the 1-23 individual will be offered employment on more than a day-to-day 1-24 basis. 1-25 SECTION 2. Except as provided by Section 3 of this Act, this 1-26 Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and applies only to a claim for 1-27 unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with the Texas 1-28 Workforce Commission on or after that date. A claim filed before 1-29 that date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the 1-30 claim was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-31 purpose. 1-32 SECTION 3. Section 201.078, Labor Code, as added by this 1-33 Act, is contingent on the passage of federal legislation 1-34 establishing the ineligibility of certain substitute teachers to 1-35 receive unemployment compensation benefits. If that federal 1-36 legislation is not enacted, Section 201.078, Labor Code, as added 1-37 by this Act, has no effect. 1-38 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-43 * * * * *