87R6080 RDS-D
By: White H.B. No. 3050
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to unemployment compensation chargebacks regarding
certain persons employed as seasonal employees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 204.022, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows:
(a-3) Benefits computed on benefit wage credits of a
seasonal employee or former seasonal employee may not be charged to
the account of an employer if at least 75 percent of the employees
employed by the employer during each of the most recent three
calendar years were employed as seasonal employees. In this
subsection, "seasonal employee" means an employee who, as a regular
course of the employee's conduct, engages in seasonal or cyclical
employment that does not continue throughout the entire year.
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 October 1, 2021.