By: Carona S.B. No. 1152

(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2007; March 14, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; March 28, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 28, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to an exclusion from unemployment compensation chargebacks for certain employers of continuously employed part-time employees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 204.022, Labor Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

(f) Benefits may not be charged to the account of an employer, regardless of whether the liability for the chargeback arises in the employee's current benefit year or in a subsequent benefit year, if the employee:

(1) was employed by the employer on a part-time basis on the date the employee became eligible for unemployment compensation benefits as a result of losing the employee's full-time employment with a different employer; and

(2) has remained continuously employed by the employer on a part-time basis since that date.

SECTION 2. Subsection (f), Section 204.022, Labor Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this Act. A claim filed before that date 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, 2007.

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