Bill Text: TX HB1878 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual during a benefit year under the state unemployment insurance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-07 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB1878 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1878-Introduced.html
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By: Capriglione | H.B. No. 1878 |
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relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to | ||
an individual during a benefit year under the state unemployment | ||
insurance program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 207, Labor Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 207.0055 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 207.0055. MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF BENEFITS; SLIDING SCALE. | ||
(a) In this section, "state average unemployment rate" means the | ||
average seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in this state, as | ||
published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, during | ||
the most recent completed calendar year quarter preceding the first | ||
day of an individual's benefit year. | ||
(b) The maximum amount of benefits payable to an eligible | ||
individual during a benefit year is an amount determined by the | ||
state average unemployment rate on a sliding scale as follows: | ||
(1) 12 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is not greater than 5.5 percent; | ||
(2) 13 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is at least 5.6 percent but not greater than 6 percent; | ||
(3) 14 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is at least 6.1 percent but not greater than 6.5 percent; | ||
(4) 15 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is at least 6.6 percent but not greater than 7 percent; | ||
(5) 16 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is at least 7.1 percent but not greater than 7.5 percent; | ||
(6) 17 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is at least 7.6 percent but not greater than 8 percent; | ||
(7) 18 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is at least 8.1 percent but not greater than 8.5 percent; | ||
(8) 19 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is at least 8.6 percent but not greater than 9 percent; and | ||
(9) 20 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
rate is greater than 9 percent. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 215.043(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) An individual is not entitled to receive shared work | ||
benefits and regular unemployment compensation benefits that | ||
exceed the maximum total benefits payable to the individual in a | ||
benefit year as provided by Section 207.0055 [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 207.005, 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 January 1, 2024. |