By Jackson                                             S.B. No. 394
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                                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.