By Janek H.B. No. 754
76R4252 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the computation of certain initial rates for
1-3 unemployment compensation contributions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 204.006(a), Labor Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person's contribution rate for the calendar year in
1-8 which the person becomes an employer is the greater of:
1-9 (1) the rate established for that year for the major
1-10 group to which the employer is assigned under Section 204.004; or
1-11 (2) .17 [two and seven-tenths] percent.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-13 applies only to computation of an unemployment compensation
1-14 contribution rate made by the Texas Workforce Commission on or
1-15 after January 1, 2000. A contribution rate computed before January
1-16 1, 2000, is governed by the law in effect on the date the rate was
1-17 computed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-18 purpose.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.