By Nixon                                         S.B. No. 216

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the disqualification for the receipt of unemployment

 1-3     compensation benefits of an individual receiving certain

 1-4     remuneration.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 207.049, Labor Code, is amended to read

 1-7     as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 207.049.  RECEIPT OF REMUNERATION.  An individual is

 1-9     disqualified for benefits for a benefit period for which the

1-10     individual is receiving or has received remuneration in the form

1-11     of:

1-12                 (1)  wages in lieu of notice; [or]

1-13                 (2)  compensation under a state worker's compensation

1-14     law or a similar law of the United States for:

1-15                       (A)  temporary partial disability;

1-16                       (B)  temporary total disability; or

1-17                       (C)  total and permanent disability;

1-18                 (3)  severance pay; or

1-19                 (4)  payment for accrued vacation leave, sick leave, or

1-20     other personal leave.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to benefit eligibility for

1-22     an unemployment compensation claim that is filed with the Texas

1-23     Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this Act.  A

1-24     claim filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by

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

 2-2     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,

 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.