By: Murphy (Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt) H.B. No. 931
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
April 23, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Natural Resources and Economic Development; May 5, 2015, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 5, 2015, sent
to printer.)
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 the
individual [who] has been paid benefits in the individual's current
benefit year equal to or exceeding two [three] times the
individual's benefit amount and:
(1) has returned to full-time employment after being
totally or partially unemployed for at least seven consecutive
days; or
(2) 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, 2015.
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