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. 1-43 * * * * *