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.
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