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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to repealing the employment and training investment |
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assessment; changing the rate of certain unemployment taxes. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 204.006(a), Labor Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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(a) A person's contribution rate for the calendar year in |
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which the person becomes an employer is the greater of: |
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(1) the rate established for that year for the major |
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group to which the employer is assigned under Section 204.004[,
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less one-tenth of one percent]; or |
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(2) two and seven-tenths [six-tenths] percent. |
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SECTION 2. Section 303.003(a), Labor Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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(a) To achieve the purposes of this chapter, the skills |
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development fund is created. The fund is composed of[:
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[(1)
money transferred into the fund under Section
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204.123; and
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[(2)] any amounts appropriated by the legislature for |
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the purpose of this chapter from the general revenue fund. |
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SECTION 3. The following provisions of the Labor Code are |
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repealed: |
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(1) Section 204.0625; |
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(2) Subchapter G, Chapter 204; and |
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(3) Subchapter F, Chapter 302. |
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SECTION 4. On the effective date of this Act, the employment |
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and training investment holding fund under Section 204.122, Labor |
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Code, and the training stabilization fund under Section 302.101, |
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Labor Code, are abolished and the unexpended balances of those |
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funds shall be transferred as follows: |
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(1) not more than 15 percent of the amount to the Texas |
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Workforce Commission to be used for one-time expenses related to |
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workforce development or the administration of Subtitle A, Title 4, |
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Labor Code; and |
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(2) the amount remaining in the funds after a transfer |
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under Subdivision (1) of this section to the unemployment |
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compensation fund established under Section 203.021, Labor Code, to |
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be credited to the amounts owed by employers under Section 204.002, |
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Labor Code, in proportion to the amount of the employment and |
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training investment assessments paid by those employers. |
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SECTION 5. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this |
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section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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(b) The changes in law made by this Act in amending Section |
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204.006(a), Labor Code, and repealing Section 204.0625, Labor Code, |
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take effect January 1, 2014. |