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.