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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