By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 334
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to unemployment compensation benefit eligibility of
 1-2     certain inmates.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 201.074, Labor Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 201.074.  SERVICE BY INMATE.  In this subtitle,
 1-7     "employment" does not include service performed by an inmate of a
 1-8     custodial or penal institution [that is owned or operated by this
 1-9     state or a political subdivision of this state].
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-11     applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that
1-12     is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.
1-13     A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
1-14     the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
1-15     in effect for that purpose.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.