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.