Bill Text: TX HB2408 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the computation of unemployment compensation benefits for an individual who is totally unemployed in a benefit period.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-16 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB2408 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB2408-Introduced.html
  87R3865 RDS-D
 
  By: Rodriguez H.B. No. 2408
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the computation of unemployment compensation benefits
  for an individual who is totally unemployed in a benefit period.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 207.002(a), (b), and (c-1), Labor Code,
  are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  An eligible individual who is totally unemployed in a
  benefit period is entitled to benefits for the benefit period at the
  rate of 2/43 [1/25] of the wages received by the individual from
  employment by employers during that quarter in the individual's
  base period in which wages were highest. For purposes of this
  subsection, the wages received by the individual from employment by
  employers during the individual's base period include wages ordered
  to be paid to the individual by a final order of the commission
  under Chapter 61 that:
               (1)  were due to be paid to the individual by an
  employer during the individual's base period; and
               (2)  will be credited to the date or dates on which the
  payment of those wages was due.
         (b)  The maximum weekly benefit amount is 60 [47.6] percent
  of the average weekly wage in covered employment in this state.  The
  minimum weekly benefit amount is 15 [7.6] percent of the average
  weekly wage in covered employment in this state.
         (c-1)  An increase in the maximum weekly benefit amount may
  not exceed $14 in any year. An increase in the minimum weekly
  benefit amount may not exceed $1 in any year. The limitations
  prescribed by this subsection apply only to an increase that is
  caused solely by an increase in the average weekly wage in covered
  employment in this state.
         SECTION 2.  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 3.  This Act takes effect October 1, 2021.
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