81R1909 KSD-D
By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 377
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits
based on the claimant's availability to do part-time work.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 207.021, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) An individual is available for work for purposes of
Subsection (a)(4) even if the individual is available only for
part-time work if:
(1) the individual establishes to the satisfaction of
the commission that the individual has a legitimate reason to limit
the individual's employment to part-time work; and
(2) the individual's last work was part-time work.
SECTION 2. Section 207.021(d), Labor Code, as added by this
Act, applies 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.