By Hardcastle                                         H.B. No. 1333
         76R5539 CMR-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the time limit regarding a protest for potential
 1-3     chargebacks under the unemployment compensation system.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 204.024, Labor Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 204.024.  PROTEST OF POTENTIAL CHARGEBACKS.  To protest
 1-8     a potential chargeback, an employer to whom notice is mailed under
 1-9     Section 204.023 must mail to the commission at Austin a protest not
1-10     later than the 30th [14th] day after the date the notice was mailed
1-11     or the right to protest the chargeback  is waived.  The protest
1-12     must include a statement of the facts supporting the grounds of the
1-13     protest.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-15     applies only to a notice of a potential chargeback that is mailed
1-16     by the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.  A notice
1-17     that is mailed before the effective date of this Act is governed by
1-18     the law in effect on the date the notice was mailed, and the former
1-19     law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.