By:  Williams                                                     S.B. No. 790
	(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2005; March 10, 2005, 
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; 
April 20, 2005, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 
Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 2; April 20, 2005, 
sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 790                                    By:  Estes


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the determination of benefit wage credits for purposes 
of unemployment compensation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Subsection (d), Section 
207.004, Labor Code, is amended to read as follows:
		(1)  "Benefit wage credits" means those wages used to 
determine an individual's right to benefits.  The term does not 
include wages earned from an employer from which the individual's 
last separation from employment before the date of the initial 
claim was under circumstances for which the individual would be 
disqualified for benefits under Section 207.044.
	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.                           



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