By Brimer                                             H.B. No. 1207
         77R4263 PB-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to notice and protest rights of certain reimbursing
 1-3     employers under the unemployment compensation system.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 205, Labor Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Section 205.0115 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 205.0115.  NOTICE AND PROTEST RIGHTS OF CERTAIN
 1-8     REIMBURSING EMPLOYERS.  Notwithstanding Section 205.011 or any
 1-9     other provision of this subtitle, a reimbursing employer  that is a
1-10     school district is entitled to the notice and protest rights
1-11     afforded an employer who pays contributions in lieu of the person
1-12     for whom the claimant last worked if:
1-13                 (1)  the claimant's last work was for a period of less
1-14     than six weeks;
1-15                 (2)  the claimant's last work was not performed for a
1-16     person who meets the definition of an employer under Subchapter C,
1-17     Chapter 201; and
1-18                 (3)  the school district was the claimant's last
1-19     employer in the base period.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-21     applies only to notice and protest rights of an employer regarding
1-22     a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with
1-23     the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.  Notice and
1-24     protest rights regarding a claim filed before that date are
 2-1     governed by the law in effect on the date that the claim was filed,
 2-2     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.