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.