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.