By Hardcastle                                         H.B. No. 1332
         76R5538 CMR-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the recovery of certain overpayments of unemployment
 1-3     compensation benefits.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 214.002(b), Labor Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  In this section, "improper benefit" means the benefit
 1-8     obtained by a person:
 1-9                 (1)  because of:
1-10                       (A)  the nondisclosure or misrepresentation by
1-11     the person or by another of a material fact, without regard to
1-12     whether the nondisclosure or misrepresentation was known or
1-13     fraudulent; or
1-14                       (B)  any other reason, including a mistake made
1-15     by the commission; and
1-16                 (2)  while:
1-17                       (A)  any condition imposed by this subtitle for
1-18     the person's qualifying for the benefit was not fulfilled in the
1-19     person's case; or
1-20                       (B)  the person was disqualified from receiving
1-21     benefits.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-23     applies only to unemployment compensation benefits paid to an
1-24     individual on or after that date.  Benefits paid before that date
 2-1     are governed by the law in effect on the date that the benefits
 2-2     were paid, and the former law is continued in effect for that
 2-3     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.