Bill Text: TX HB2034 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to unemployment compensation eligibility and chargebacks regarding certain persons who leave work to attend training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2034 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2034-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2034 |
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relating to unemployment compensation eligibility and chargebacks | ||
regarding certain persons who leave work to attend training. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 204.022(e), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) Benefits may not be charged to the account of an | ||
employer, regardless of whether the liability for the chargeback | ||
arises in the employee's current benefit year or in a subsequent | ||
benefit year, if the employee's last separation from the employer's | ||
employment before the employee's benefit year was or would have | ||
been excepted from disqualification under Section 207.023(b)(2) or | ||
207.045(j) [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 207.045, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
(j) An individual is not disqualified for benefits under | ||
this section if: | ||
(1) the individual left the individual's last work to | ||
attend commission-approved training under Section 207.022; and | ||
(2) the individual's last work did not constitute | ||
suitable work for the individual, as determined under Section | ||
207.008. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 207.052, Labor Code, is repealed.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 September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2034 was passed by the House on April | ||
11, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 7, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2034 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |