By: Eltife  S.B. No. 507
         (In the Senate - Filed January 21, 2009; February 17, 2009,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
  March 19, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
  Nays 0; March 19, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to filing a wage claim.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsections (b) and (d), Section 61.051, Labor
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A wage claim must be filed in a manner and [in writing]
  on a form prescribed by the commission and must be verified by the
  employee.
         (d)  The employee may file the wage claim:
               (1)  in person at an office of the commission; [or]
               (2)  by mailing the claim to an address designated by
  the commission;
               (3)  by faxing the claim to a fax number designated by
  the commission; or
               (4)  by any other means adopted by the commission by
  rule.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a wage claim that is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on
  or after the effective date of this Act. A wage claim filed before
  that date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the claim
  was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
  * * * * *