By Keffer H.B. No. 1385 76R52 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a disqualification of eligibility for unemployment 1-3 compensation benefits for periods of unpaid disciplinary 1-4 suspensions. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 201.091, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-7 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), an individual is not 1-9 partially unemployed for purposes of this subtitle for a benefit 1-10 period in which the individual is suspended by the individual's 1-11 employer from the individual's position of employment without 1-12 compensation as a disciplinary action. 1-13 SECTION 2. Section 207.045, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-14 Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-15 (j) An individual who is suspended by the individual's 1-16 employer from the individual's position of employment for a 1-17 specified term not to exceed five days without compensation as a 1-18 disciplinary action is considered to have left the position of 1-19 employment voluntarily without good cause connected to the 1-20 employment if the individual does not return to the position of 1-21 employment after the expiration of the period of suspension. The 1-22 disqualification for benefits under this subsection continues until 1-23 the conditions for requalification under Subsection (b) are 1-24 satisfied. 2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 2-2 applies only to eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits 2-3 based on a claim filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or 2-4 after that date. A claim filed before that date is governed by the 2-5 law in effect on the date that the claim was filed, and the former 2-6 law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.