By Deshotel H.B. No. 2396
76R6054 CMR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to disqualification for the receipt of unemployment
1-3 compensation benefits based on the receipt of certain periodic
1-4 payments.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 207.050(b), Labor Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (b) If a periodic payment described by Subsection (a) is
1-9 received by an individual who has contributed to the payment [under
1-10 the federal Social Security Act], the commission shall consider
1-11 the individual's contribution and may not reduce the weekly benefit
1-12 amount.
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.