By Nixon                                         S.B. No. 215

      75R1385 PB-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

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

 1-3     employers under the unemployment compensation system.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 205, Labor Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Section 205.0115 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 205.0115.  NOTICE AND PROTEST RIGHTS OF CERTAIN

 1-8     REIMBURSING EMPLOYERS.  Notwithstanding Section 205.011 or any

 1-9     other provision of this subtitle, a reimbursing employer is

1-10     entitled to the notice and protest rights afforded an employer who

1-11     pays contributions in lieu of the person for whom the claimant last

1-12     worked if:

1-13                 (1)  the claimant's last work was for a period of less

1-14     than six weeks;

1-15                 (2)  the claimant's last work was not performed for a

1-16     person who meets the definition of an employer under Subchapter C,

1-17     Chapter 201; and

1-18                 (3)  the reimbursing employer was the claimant's last

1-19     employer in the base period.

1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-21     applies only to notice and protest rights of an employer regarding

1-22     a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with

1-23     the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.  Notice and

1-24     protest rights regarding a claim filed before that date are

 2-1     governed by the law in effect on the date that the claim was filed,

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

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

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.