1-1     By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1151
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 16, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1151                By:  Gallegos
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to unemployment compensation benefits for certain persons
1-11     engaged in seasonal employment.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 201, Labor Code, is amended
1-14     by adding Section 201.048 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 201.048.  SERVICES PERFORMED IN SEASONAL PLAY OR MUSICAL
1-16     PRODUCTION.  (a)  In this section, "seasonal" means a period
1-17     consisting of not more than 17 consecutive weeks in a calendar year
1-18     that recurs annually at approximately the same time and during the
1-19     same months each calendar year.
1-20           (b)  Services performed for a seasonal play or musical
1-21     production, a principal purpose of which is education or historical
1-22     preservation regarding the state or a region of the state,
1-23     constitute employment for purposes of this subtitle.  Benefits are
1-24     payable to an individual based on seasonal services performed by
1-25     the individual for the seasonal play or musical production only for
1-26     the weeks of unemployment that occur, or the greater part of which
1-27     occur, during the seasonal work period.
1-28           (c)  The commission by rule shall determine the dates of a
1-29     seasonal period for purposes of this section.
1-30           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies to
1-32     eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits based on an
1-33     unemployment compensation claim that is filed with the Texas
1-34     Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this Act.  A
1-35     claim filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by
1-36     the law in effect on the date the claim was filed, and the former
1-37     law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-38           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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