1-1     By:  Gutierrez (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)               H.B. No. 1757
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2001;
 1-3     May 7, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Business
 1-4     and Commerce; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to payment of unemployment compensation tax contributions
 1-9     by certain employers engaged in agriculture.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 204.007, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-12     as follows:
1-13           Sec. 204.007.  SPECIAL RATE; CERTAIN EMPLOYERS ENGAGED IN
1-14     AGRICULTURE [RATE--COTTON GINNING EMPLOYER].  (a)  This section
1-15     applies to an [An] employer identified by the commission as
1-16     classified in the manual as:
1-17                 (1)  Number 115114, crop preparation services for
1-18     market; or
1-19                 (2)  Number 115111 [0724], cotton ginning.
1-20           (b)  An employer subject to this section[,] may elect to pay
1-21     a contribution at a total fixed rate of five and four-tenths
1-22     percent instead of paying a contribution computed on:
1-23                 (1)  the general tax rate applicable to that employer,
1-24     with the deficit tax rate and replenishment tax rate; or
1-25                 (2)  any other tax rate applicable to that employer
1-26     under this subtitle.
1-27           (c) [(b)]  An employer must notify the commission of an
1-28     election under this section in writing not later than December 31
1-29     preceding the year for which the election is made.
1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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