Bill Text: TX HB463 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the disqualification from receiving unemployment benefits of individuals who resign from work in lieu of being discharged for misconduct.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB463 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB463-Comm_Sub.html

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85R20016 KSD-D
By: Dale, Gutierrez H.B. No. 463
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 463:
By: Button C.S.H.B. No. 463

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the disqualification from receiving unemployment
benefits of individuals who resign from work in lieu of being
discharged for misconduct.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 207.045, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g-2) to read as follows:
(g-2) An individual who left the individual's last work
voluntarily in lieu of being discharged for misconduct is
disqualified from receiving benefits, regardless of whether:
(1) the individual gave advance notice to the employer
of the individual's resignation;
(2) the individual was terminated by the employer
before the date stated in an advance notice of resignation as the
individual's last day of work; or
(3) the employer paid the individual for the entire
notice period.
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 September 1, 2017.