By: Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 1820
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 2003;
April 9, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce; April 23, 2003, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 23, 2003, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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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