1-1 By: Nixon S.B. No. 215
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 15, 1997; January 16, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 March 4, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 4, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 215 By: Shapleigh
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to notice and protest rights of certain reimbursing
1-11 employers under the unemployment compensation system.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 201.011, Labor Code is amended by adding
1-14 a new Subdivision (16) and renumbering subsequent subdivisions to
1-15 read as follows:
1-16 (16) "Person for whom the claimant last worked" means
1-17 the last individual or organization for whom the claimant worked
1-18 for at least six weeks or an entity that provides insured
1-19 employment under the law of this state, another state, or the
1-20 United States for whom the claimant last worked prior to the
1-21 initial claim.
1-22 (17) [(16)] "Reimbursement" means a payment made in
1-23 accordance with Chapter 205.
1-24 (18) [(17)] "Reimbursing employer" means an employer
1-25 making payments in accordance with Chapter 205.
1-26 (19) [(18)] "State" means a state of the United
1-27 States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or the Virgin
1-28 Islands.
1-29 (20) [(19)] "Taxed employer" means an employer who
1-30 pays a contribution under this subtitle.
1-31 (21) [(20)] "Temporary employee" means an individual
1-32 employed by a temporary help firm for the purpose of being assigned
1-33 to work for the clients of a temporary help firm.
1-34 (22) [(21)] "Temporary help firm" means a person who
1-35 employs individuals for the purpose of assigning those individuals
1-36 to work for the clients of the temporary help firm to support or
1-37 supplement a client's work force during employee absences,
1-38 temporary skill shortages, seasonal work loads, special assignments
1-39 and projects, and other similar work situations.
1-40 (23) [(22)] "United States" includes, in a geographic
1-41 context, each state.
1-42 (24) [(23)] "Valid claim" means a claim filed by an
1-43 unemployed individual who has received the wages necessary to
1-44 qualify for benefits.
1-45 (25) [(24)] "Warrant" means a written payment order or
1-46 an electronic payment order that is a part of an electronic fund
1-47 transfer system approved by the commission.
1-48 (26) [(25)] "Week" means seven consecutive calendar
1-49 days as prescribed by the commission.
1-50 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-51 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that
1-52 is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.
1-53 A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
1-54 the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
1-55 in effect for that purpose.
1-56 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-57 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-58 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-59 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-60 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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