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.