| 1 | 1 | | By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 741 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2013; February 26, 2013, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development; |
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| 4 | 4 | | March 18, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | 5 | | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 1; March 18, 2013, |
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| 6 | 6 | | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 741 By: Watson |
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| 10 | 10 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT |
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| 12 | 12 | | relating to the period during which an employee may file a claim for |
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| 13 | 13 | | unpaid wages with the Texas Workforce Commission. |
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| 14 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 61.051, Labor Code, is |
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| 16 | 16 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 17 | | (c) A wage claim must be filed not later than the first |
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| 18 | 18 | | anniversary of [180th day after] the date the wages claimed became |
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| 19 | 19 | | due for payment. The filing [180-day] deadline is a matter of |
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| 20 | 20 | | jurisdiction. |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section |
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| 22 | 22 | | 61.051, Labor Code, applies to a wage claim filed under Subchapter |
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| 23 | 23 | | D, Chapter 61, Labor Code, for wages that become due for payment on |
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| 24 | 24 | | or after March 5, 2013. A wage claim for wages that became due for |
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| 25 | 25 | | payment before that date is governed by the law in effect |
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| 26 | 26 | | immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former |
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| 27 | 27 | | law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 29 | 29 | | * * * * * |
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