By:  Jackson                                           S.B. No. 394
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a disqualification for unemployment benefits for
 1-2     claimants who have received certain post-termination payments.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 207.049, Labor Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 207.049.  RECEIPT OF REMUNERATION.  (a)  An individual
 1-7     is disqualified for benefits for a benefit period for which the
 1-8     individual is receiving or has received remuneration in the form
 1-9     of:
1-10                 (1)  wages in lieu of notice; [or]
1-11                 (2)  compensation under a state worker's compensation
1-12     law or a similar law of the United States for:
1-13                       (A)  temporary partial disability;
1-14                       (B)  temporary total disability; or
1-15                       (C)  total and permanent disability; or
1-16                 (3)  severance pay, except severance pay that is
1-17     explicitly outlined in a group employment contract.
1-18           (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), if the remuneration
1-19     received by an individual under Subsection (a)(1) or (3) is less
1-20     than the benefits that the individual would otherwise be eligible
1-21     to receive, the individual is entitled to receive benefits for the
1-22     benefit period that are reduced by the amount of the remuneration,
1-23     adjusted as provided by Section 207.006.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
 2-1     applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation that is filed
 2-2     with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.  A claim
 2-3     filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date
 2-4     that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued in effect
 2-5     for that purpose.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.