H.B. No. 1820




AN ACT

relating to the exception of certain agricultural labor from  
unemployment compensation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 201, Labor Code, is 
amended by adding Section 201.078 to read as follows:
	Sec. 201.078.  SERVICE BY NONRESIDENT ALIEN AGRICULTURAL 
WORKER.  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service 
performed by a nonresident alien during the period that the alien is 
temporarily in the United States under an H2-A visa if the service 
is not defined as employment under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act 
(26 U.S.C. Section 3306(c)(19)).
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and 
applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that 
is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.  
A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on 
the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued 
in effect for that purpose.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1820 was passed by the House on April 
3, 2003, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1820 was passed by the Senate on May 
1, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor