83R21250 MAW-F
By: Murphy H.B. No. 3563
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3563:
By: Isaac C.S.H.B. No. 3563
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an individual's eligibility to receive unemployment
compensation benefits on the individual's waiting period claim.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 207.021(c), Labor Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an
individual is eligible to receive benefits on the individual's
waiting period claim in accordance with this subtitle if:
(1) the individual [who] has:
(A) been paid benefits in the individual's
current benefit year equal to or exceeding three times the
individual's benefit amount; and
(B) returned to full-time employment; or
(2) the individual has exhausted the individual's
regular benefits for the current benefit year, other than benefits
applicable to the waiting period [is eligible to receive benefits
on the individual's waiting period claim in accordance with this
subtitle].
SECTION 2. The change in law made 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 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, 2013.