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 |
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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 [ |
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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 [ |
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of the average weekly wage in covered employment in this state. The | ||
minimum weekly benefit amount is 15 [ |
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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. |