1-1     By:  Nixon                                             S.B. No. 216

 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 24, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 2; March 24, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 216                   By:  Duncan

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the disqualification for the receipt of unemployment

1-11     compensation benefits of an individual receiving certain

1-12     remuneration.

1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-14           SECTION 1.  Section 207.049, Labor Code, is amended to read

1-15     as follows:

1-16           Sec. 207.049.  Receipt of Remuneration.  (a)  An individual

1-17     is disqualified for benefits for a benefit period for which the

1-18     individual is receiving or has received remuneration in the form

1-19     of:

1-20                 (1)  wages in lieu of notice; [or]

1-21                 (2)  compensation under a state worker's compensation

1-22     law or a similar law of the United States for:

1-23                       (A)  temporary partial disability;

1-24                       (B)  temporary total disability; or

1-25                       (C)  total and permanent disability; or

1-26                 (3)  severance pay, except severance pay that is

1-27     explicitly outlined in a group employment contract.

1-28           (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), if the remuneration

1-29     received by an individual under Subsection (a)(1) or (a)(3) is less

1-30     than the benefits that the individual would otherwise be eligible

1-31     to receive, the individual is entitled to receive benefits for the

1-32     benefit period that are reduced by the amount of the remuneration,

1-33     adjusted as provided by Section 207.006.

1-34           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to benefit eligibility for

1-35     an unemployment compensation claim that is filed with the Texas

1-36     Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this Act.  A

1-37     claim filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by

1-38     the law in effect on the date that the claim was filed, and the

1-39     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-40           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-41     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-45     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-46     passage, and it is so enacted.

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