1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 334
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 1999; February 3, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 March 4, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 4, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to unemployment compensation benefit eligibility of
1-9 certain inmates.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 201.074, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-12 as follows:
1-13 Sec. 201.074. SERVICE BY INMATE. In this subtitle,
1-14 "employment" does not include service performed by an inmate of a
1-15 custodial or penal institution [that is owned or operated by this
1-16 state or a political subdivision of this state].
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-18 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that
1-19 is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.
1-20 A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
1-21 the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
1-22 in effect for that purpose.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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