81R8053 KCR-D
By: Deshotel H.B. No. 1778
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to exceptions to certain disqualifications from receiving
unemployment benefits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 207.045(b) and (d), Labor Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(b) A [Except as provided by Subsection (c), a]
disqualification for benefits under this section continues until
the individual has returned to employment and:
(1) worked for six weeks; or
(2) earned wages equal to six times the individual's
benefit amount.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an
individual who is available to work may not be disqualified for
benefits because the individual left work because of:
(1) a medically verified illness of the individual or
the individual's minor child;
(2) injury;
(3) disability;
(4) pregnancy;
(5) an involuntary separation as described by Section
207.046; [or]
(6) a move from the area of the individual's employment
that:
(A) was made with the individual's spouse who is
a member of the armed forces of the United States; and
(B) resulted from the spouse's permanent change
of station of longer than 120 days or a tour of duty of longer than
one year; or
(7) a move from the area of the individual's employment
that:
(A) was made with the individual's spouse who is
not a member of the armed forces of the United States; and
(B) resulted from a change in the location of the
spouse's employment.
SECTION 2. Section 207.045(c), Labor Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits based on a 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.