1-1     By:  Jackson                                           S.B. No. 394
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 3, 1999; February 8, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
 1-4     March 4, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 4, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 394                  By:  Jackson
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to a disqualification for unemployment benefits for
1-11     claimants who have received certain post-termination payments.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13                 SECTION 1.  Section 207.049, Labor Code, is amended to
1-14     read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 207.049.  RECEIPT OF REMUNERATION.  (a)  An individual
1-16     is disqualified for benefits for a benefit period for which the
1-17     individual is receiving or has received remuneration in the form
1-18     of:
1-19                 (1)  wages in lieu of notice; [or]
1-20                 (2)  compensation under a state worker's compensation
1-21     law or a similar law of the United States for:
1-22                       (A)  temporary partial disability;
1-23                       (B)  temporary total disability; or
1-24                       (C)  total and permanent disability; or
1-25                 (3)  severance pay, except severance pay that is
1-26     explicitly outlined in a group employment contract.
1-27           (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), if the remuneration
1-28     received by an individual under Subsection (a)(1) or (3) is less
1-29     than the benefits that the individual would otherwise be eligible
1-30     to receive, the individual is entitled to receive benefits for the
1-31     benefit period that are reduced by the amount of the remuneration,
1-32     adjusted as provided by Section 207.006.
1-33           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-34     applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation that is filed
1-35     with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.  A claim
1-36     filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date
1-37     that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued in effect
1-38     for that purpose.
1-39           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-40     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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