76R13635 PB-D By Sibley S.B. No. 335 Substitute the following for S.B. No. 335: By Solis of Cameron C.S.S.B. No. 335 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a disqualification for receipt of unemployment 1-3 compensation benefits for a benefit period in which the applicant 1-4 for benefits works full-time. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 201.091, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-7 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) For purposes of this subtitle, an individual is not 1-9 considered unemployed and is not eligible to receive benefits for 1-10 any benefit period during which the individual works the 1-11 individual's customary full-time hours, regardless of the amount of 1-12 wages the individual earns during the benefit period. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-14 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that 1-15 is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date. 1-16 A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on 1-17 the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued 1-18 in effect for that purpose. 1-19 SECTION 3. 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 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.