By Jackson S.B. No. 394
76R53 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a disqualification for unemployment benefits for
1-3 claimants who have received certain post-termination payments.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 207.049, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 Sec. 207.049. RECEIPT OF REMUNERATION. (a) An individual
1-8 is disqualified for benefits for a benefit period for which the
1-9 individual is receiving or has received remuneration in the form
1-10 of:
1-11 (1) wages in lieu of notice; [or]
1-12 (2) compensation under a state worker's compensation
1-13 law or a similar law of the United States for:
1-14 (A) temporary partial disability;
1-15 (B) temporary total disability; or
1-16 (C) total and permanent disability;
1-17 (3) severance or other separation pay; or
1-18 (4) payments of accrued vacation leave, sick leave, or
1-19 other personal leave.
1-20 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), if the remuneration
1-21 received by an individual under Subsection (a)(1), (3), or (4) is
1-22 less than the benefits that the individual would otherwise be
1-23 eligible to receive, the individual is entitled to receive benefits
1-24 for the benefit period that are reduced by the amount of the
2-1 remuneration, adjusted as provided by Section 207.006.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-3 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation that is filed
2-4 with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date. A
2-5 claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
2-6 the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
2-7 in effect for that purpose.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.