By: Ellis S.B. No. 844
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to unemployment compensation eligibility and chargebacks
regarding certain persons who leave work to attend training.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 204.022, Labor Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) Benefits may not be charged to the account of an
employer, regardless of whether the liability for the chargeback
arises in the employee's current benefit year or in a subsequent
benefit year, if the employee's last separation from the employer's
employment before the employee's benefit year was or would have
been excepted from disqualification under Section 207.023(b)(2) or
207.045(j) [207.052(b)].
SECTION 2. Section 207.045, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
(j) An individual is not disqualified for benefits under
this section if:
(1) the individual left the individual's last work to
attend commission-approved training under Section 207.022; and
(2) the individual's last work did not constitute
suitable work for the individual, as determined under Section
207.008.
SECTION 3. Section 207.052, Labor Code, is repealed.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.