By Gutierrez                                          H.B. No. 3449
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to unemployment tax rate for crop preparation companies.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 204.007, Labor Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 204.007  Special Rate--Cotton Ginning [Employer] and
 1-7     Other Crop Preparation Employers  (a)  An employer identified by
 1-8     the commission as classified in the manual as Number 0724, cotton
 1-9     ginning, or 0723, crop preparation services for market may elect to
1-10     pay a contribution at a total fixed rate of five and four-tenths
1-11     percent instead of paying a contribution computed on:
1-12                 (1)  the general tax rate applicable to that employer,
1-13     with the deficit tax rate and replenishment tax rate:  or
1-14                 (2)  any other tax rate applicable to that employer
1-15     under this subtitle
1-16           (b)  An employer must notify the commission of an election
1-17     under this section in writing not later than December 31 preceding
1-18     the year for which the election is made.
1-19           SECTION 2.  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
 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.