By Van de Putte H.B. No. 1967 76R6523 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an exclusion from unemployment compensation chargebacks 1-3 for employers who hire certain recipients of public assistance. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 204, Labor Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 204.0225 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 204.0225. EXCLUSION FROM CHARGEBACKS FOR EMPLOYER WHO 1-8 HIRES PUBLIC ASSISTANCE RECIPIENTS. (a) In this section, "public 1-9 assistance recipient" means an individual who receives financial 1-10 assistance through the Texas Department of Human Services under 1-11 Chapter 31, Human Resources Code. 1-12 (b) Benefits computed on benefit wage credits of an employee 1-13 or former employee may not be charged to the account of an employer 1-14 if: 1-15 (1) the employer hired the employee through an 1-16 employment program described under Chapter 31, Human Resources 1-17 Code; and 1-18 (2) the employee works for the employer for less than 1-19 six months. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-21 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that 1-22 is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date. 1-23 A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on 1-24 the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued 2-1 in effect for that purpose. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.