1-1 By: Hardcastle, Woolley (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 1333
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
1-4 Development; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the time limit regarding a protest for potential
1-9 chargebacks under the unemployment compensation system.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 204.024, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-12 as follows:
1-13 Sec. 204.024. PROTEST OF POTENTIAL CHARGEBACKS. To protest
1-14 a potential chargeback, an employer to whom notice is mailed under
1-15 Section 204.023 must mail to the commission at Austin a protest not
1-16 later than the 30th [14th] day after the date the notice was mailed
1-17 or the right to protest the chargeback is waived. The protest
1-18 must include a statement of the facts supporting the grounds of the
1-19 protest.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-21 applies only to a notice of a potential chargeback that is mailed
1-22 by the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date. A notice
1-23 that is mailed before the effective date of this Act is governed by
1-24 the law in effect on the date the notice was mailed, and the former
1-25 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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