84R4673 MAW-F
By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 576
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:
(1) [who] has been totally or partially unemployed for
at least seven consecutive days and has returned to full-time
employment; or
(2) has exhausted the individual's regular benefits
for the current benefit year, other than benefits applicable to the
waiting period [paid benefits in the individual's current benefit
year equal to or exceeding three times the individual's benefit
amount 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.