SRC-PNG H.B. 1333 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 1333
76R5539 CMR-FBy: Hardcastle (Sibley)
Economic Development
5/13/1999
Engrossed


DIGEST 

Under current law, employers are mailed notices of maximum potential
chargebacks of unemployment benefits paid to their former employees. These
chargebacks to their unemployment tax accounts are included in the formula
for calculating their tax rates and can result in an increase in the tax
rates. Employers are currently given 14 days to protest their chargebacks.
This time frame may lead to late responses, which results in automatic
chargebacks to the employers' accounts. H.B. 1333 would increase the time
allowed for employers to protest chargebacks to their unemployment tax
accounts from 14 to 30 days. Benefit payments to unemployed claimants would
not be affected. 
 
PURPOSE

As proposed, H.B. 1333 to revise the time limit an employer has to protest
potential chargebacks under the unemployment compensation system. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 204.024, Labor Code, to change the time limit
within which an employer may protest to the Texas Workforce Commission
potential chargebacks under the unemployment compensation system from
within 14 days to within 30 days after the date the notice of the
employer's maximum potential chargebacks is mailed. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999. 
  Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.