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1-14 repealed.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.