Amend HB 2120 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the 
bill appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Section 201.011(1), Labor Code, is repealed.                    
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter B, Chapter 201, Labor Code, is 
amended by adding Section 201.013 to read as follows:
	Sec. 201.013.  DEFINITION OF BASE PERIOD; ALTERNATE BASE 
PERIODS.  (a)  For purposes  of this subtitle and subject to this 
section, an individual's base period is the four consecutive 
completed calendar quarters, prescribed by the commission, in the 
five consecutive completed calendar quarters preceding the first 
day of an individual's benefit year.
	(b)  For an individual precluded because of a medically 
verifiable injury or illness from working during a major part of a 
calendar quarter of the period that would otherwise be the 
individual's base period under Subsection (a), the base period is 
the first four calendar quarters of the five consecutive calendar 
quarters preceding the calendar quarter in which the illness began 
or the injury occurred if the individual files an initial claim for 
benefits not later than 24 months after the date on which the 
individual's injury or illness began or occurred.
	(c)  For an individual who does not have sufficient benefit 
wage credits to qualify for benefits under the computation of the 
base period as provided by Subsection (a) or (b), the base period is 
the four most recently completed calendar quarters preceding the 
first day of the individual's benefit year.
	SECTION ____.  Section 208.002, Labor Code, is amended to 
read as follows:   
	Sec. 208.002.  [NOTICE OF] INITIAL CLAIM; LAST WORK.  (a)  
When used in connection with an initial claim, "last work" and 
"person for whom the claimant last worked" refer to:
		(1)  the last person for whom the claimant actually 
worked, if the claimant worked for that person in six or more 
consecutive weeks and was paid wages by that person equal to at 
least six times the claimant's weekly benefit amount; or
		(2)  the employer, as defined by Subchapter C, Chapter 
201, or by the unemployment law of any other state, for whom the 
claimant last worked.
	(b)  The commission shall mail a notice of the filing of an 
initial claim to the person for whom the claimant last worked before 
the effective date of the initial claim.  If the person for whom the 
claimant last worked has more than one branch or division operating 
at different locations, the commission shall mail the notice to the 
branch or division at which the claimant last worked.
	(c) [(b)]  Mailing of a notice under this section to the 
correct address of the person, branch, or division for which the 
claimant last worked constitutes notice of the claim to the person.