By Hawley                                              H.B. No. 934
         76R2147 PB-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to payment of contributions by certain employers of
 1-3     domestic service workers.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 201.027(a), Labor Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  In this subtitle, "employer" also means an employing
 1-8     unit that paid cash wages of $4,000 [$1,000] or more during [a
 1-9     calendar quarter in] the current or preceding calendar year for
1-10     domestic service in a private home, local college club, or local
1-11     chapter of a college fraternity or sorority.
1-12           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 204, Labor Code, is amended
1-13     by adding Section 204.0025 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 204.0025.  PAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY CERTAIN EMPLOYERS
1-15     OF DOMESTIC SERVICE WORKERS.  Notwithstanding any other provision
1-16     of this subtitle, the commission may not require an employer whose
1-17     only liability for contributions under this subtitle is as an
1-18     employer of a domestic service worker under Section 201.027 to pay
1-19     or report to the commission regarding those contributions more than
1-20     once in a calendar year.
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-22     applies only to payment of a contribution for  unemployment
1-23     compensation benefits that is owed based on wages paid for domestic
1-24     service on or after January 1, 1999. A contribution owed based on
 2-1     wages paid for domestic service before January 1, 1999, is governed
 2-2     by the law in effect on the date that the wages were paid, and the
 2-3     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-4           SECTION 4.  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.