By Tillery H.B. No. 886
76R3577 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the filing of certain unemployment compensation
1-3 actions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 212.204, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 Sec. 212.204. FILING OF ACTION. (a) Except as provided by
1-8 Subsection (b), an [An] action under this subchapter must be filed:
1-9 (1) in the county of the claimant's residence; [or]
1-10 (2) in the county in this state in which the
1-11 claimant's last employer has its principal place of business; or
1-12 (3) in the county in which the division of the
1-13 claimant's last employer for which the claimant worked is located.
1-14 (b) In addition to the counties prescribed by Subsection
1-15 (a), if the claimant is not a resident of this state, the claimant
1-16 may file an action, in:
1-17 (A) Travis County; or
1-18 (B) [the county in this state in which the
1-19 claimant's last employer has its principal place of business; or]
1-20 [(C)] the county of the claimant's last
1-21 residence in this state.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-23 applies only to an unemployment compensation action filed on or
1-24 after the effective date of this Act. An action filed before the
2-1 effective date of this Act is governed by the law on the date the
2-2 action was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for
2-3 that purpose.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.