1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 335 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 a disqualification for receipt of unemployment 1-9 compensation benefits for a benefit period in which the applicant 1-10 for benefits works at least 40 hours. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 201.091, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-13 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-14 (e) For purposes of this subtitle, an individual is not 1-15 considered unemployed and is not eligible to receive benefits for 1-16 any benefit period in which the individual works at least 40 hours, 1-17 regardless of the amount of wages the individual earns during the 1-18 benefit period. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-20 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that 1-21 is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date. 1-22 A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on 1-23 the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued 1-24 in effect for that purpose. 1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *