By Hardcastle                                         H.B. No. 2077
         76R5540 JMM-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the computation of the initial contribution rate for
 1-3     certain employers for purposes of unemployment compensation.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 204.006(a), Labor Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A person's contribution rate for the calendar year in
 1-8     which the person becomes an employer is one percent [the greater
 1-9     of:]
1-10                 [(1)  the rate established for that year for the major
1-11     group to which the employer is assigned under Section 204.004; or]
1-12                 [(2)  two and seven-tenths percent].
1-13           SECTION 2.  Sections 204.004 and 204.005, Labor Code, are
1-14     repealed.
1-15           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-16     applies only to the computation of an unemployment compensation
1-17     contribution rate made by the Texas Workforce Commission on or
1-18     after January 1, 2000.  A contribution rate computed before January
1-19     1, 2000, is governed by the law in effect on the date the rate was
1-20     computed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-21     purpose.
1-22           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.