By Solis of Cameron                                   H.B. No. 2126
         76R2548 PB-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a disqualification for receipt of unemployment
 1-3     compensation benefits for a benefit period in which the applicant
 1-4     for benefits works at least 40 hours.
 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)  For purposes of this subtitle, an individual is not
 1-9     considered unemployed and is not eligible to receive benefits for
1-10     any benefit period in  which the individual works at least 40
1-11     hours, regardless of the amount of wages the individual earns
1-12     during the benefit period.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-14     applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that
1-15     is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.
1-16     A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
1-17     the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
1-18     in effect for that purpose.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.