| 1 | 1 | | By: Ellis S.B. No. 844 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2013; March 5, 2013, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development; |
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| 4 | 4 | | March 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, |
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| 5 | 5 | | Nays 0; March 27, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to unemployment compensation eligibility and chargebacks |
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| 11 | 11 | | regarding certain persons who leave work to attend training. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 204.022, Labor Code, is |
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| 14 | 14 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (e) Benefits may not be charged to the account of an |
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| 16 | 16 | | employer, regardless of whether the liability for the chargeback |
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| 17 | 17 | | arises in the employee's current benefit year or in a subsequent |
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| 18 | 18 | | benefit year, if the employee's last separation from the employer's |
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| 19 | 19 | | employment before the employee's benefit year was or would have |
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| 20 | 20 | | been excepted from disqualification under Section 207.023(b)(2) or |
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| 21 | 21 | | 207.045(j) [207.052(b)]. |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 2. Section 207.045, Labor Code, is amended by |
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| 23 | 23 | | adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: |
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| 24 | 24 | | (j) An individual is not disqualified for benefits under |
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| 25 | 25 | | this section if: |
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| 26 | 26 | | (1) the individual left the individual's last work to |
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| 27 | 27 | | attend commission-approved training under Section 207.022; and |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2) the individual's last work did not constitute |
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| 29 | 29 | | suitable work for the individual, as determined under Section |
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| 30 | 30 | | 207.008. |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 3. Section 207.052, Labor Code, is repealed. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to |
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| 33 | 33 | | a claim for unemployment compensation benefits filed with the Texas |
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| 34 | 34 | | Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this Act. A |
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| 35 | 35 | | claim filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the |
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| 36 | 36 | | law in effect on the date the claim was filed, and the former law is |
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| 37 | 37 | | continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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