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Amend CSHB 481 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  Strike SECTION 2 of the bill, added Section 204.022(f), 
Labor Code (page 1, lines 27-31).
	(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Section 204.022(a), Labor Code, as amended by 
Chapters 77, 526, and 817, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular 
Session, 2003, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Benefits computed on benefit wage credits of an employee 
or former employee may not be charged to the account of an employer 
if the employee's last separation from the employer's employment 
before the employee's benefit year:
		(1)  was required by a federal statute;                                       
		(2)  was required by a statute of this state or an 
ordinance of a municipality of this state;
		(3) would have disqualified the employee under Section 
207.044, 207.045, 207.051, or 207.053 if the employment had been 
the employee's last work;
		(4)  imposes a disqualification under Section 207.044, 
207.045, 207.051, or 207.053;
		(5)  was caused by a medically verifiable illness of 
the employee or the employee's minor child;
		(6)  was based on a natural disaster that results in a 
disaster declaration by the president of the United States under 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. Section 5121 et seq.), if the employee would have been 
entitled to unemployment assistance benefits under Section 410 of 
that act (42 U.S.C. Section 5177) had the employee not received 
state unemployment compensation benefits;
		(7)  was caused by a natural disaster, fire, flood, or 
explosion that causes employees to be separated from one employer's 
employment;
		(8)  was based on a disaster that results in a disaster 
declaration by the governor under Section 418.014, Government Code;
		(9)  resulted from the employee's resigning from 
partial employment to accept other employment that the employee 
reasonably believed would increase the employee's weekly wage; [or]
		(10)  [(9)]  was caused by the employer being called to 
active military service in any branch of the United States armed 
forces on or after January 1, 2003;
		(11)  [(9)]  resulted from the employee leaving the 
employee's workplace to protect the employee from family violence 
or stalking as evidenced by:
			(A)  an active or recently issued protective order 
documenting family violence against, or the stalking of, the 
employee or the potential for family violence against, or the 
stalking of, the employee;
			(B)  a police record documenting family violence 
against, or the stalking of, the employee; and
			(C)  a physician's statement or other medical 
documentation of family violence against the employee; or
		(12)  was caused by the employee being unable to 
perform the work as a result of a disability for which the employee 
is receiving disability insurance benefits under 42 U.S.C. Section 
423.
	(3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  (a)  The Texas Workforce Commission shall 
conduct a study on unemployment compensation benefits paid to 
persons who are eligible under Section 207.0211, Labor Code, as 
added by this Act.  The study must include a statistical analysis of 
persons who are qualified for benefits under Section 207.0211, the 
number of persons who receive benefits under that section, the 
average length of time that the benefits are paid, the amounts of 
the benefits, and any other information relevant to an analysis of 
the change in law made by this Act.
	(b)  The Texas Workforce Commission shall report the results 
of the study under this section to the lieutenant governor, the 
speaker of the house of representatives, and the legislature not 
later than December 1, 2006.