By:  Williams                                                     S.B. No. 788


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to eligibility for certain unemployment compensation 
benefits.     
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 207.021, Labor Code, is 
repealed.        
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to 
eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits based on an 
unemployment compensation claim that is filed with the Texas 
Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this Act.  A 
claim filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the 
law in effect on the date the claim was filed, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.