By Sibley                                              S.B. No. 334
         76R2547 PB-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to unemployment compensation benefit eligibility of
 1-3     certain inmates.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 201.074, Labor Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 201.074.  SERVICE BY INMATE.  In this subtitle,
 1-8     "employment" does not include service performed by an inmate of a
 1-9     custodial or penal institution [that is owned or operated by this
1-10     state or a political subdivision of this state].
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-12     applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that
1-13     is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.
1-14     A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
1-15     the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
1-16     in effect for that purpose.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.