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.