Bill Text: TX HB931 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an individual's eligibility to receive unemployment compensation benefits on the individual's waiting period claim.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB931 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB931-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 931 |
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relating to an individual's eligibility to receive unemployment | ||
compensation benefits on the individual's waiting period claim. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 207.021(c), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an | ||
individual is eligible to receive benefits on the individual's | ||
waiting period claim in accordance with this subtitle if the | ||
individual [ |
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benefit year equal to or exceeding two [ |
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individual's benefit amount and: | ||
(1) has returned to full-time employment after being | ||
totally or partially unemployed for at least seven consecutive | ||
days; or | ||
(2) has exhausted the individual's regular benefits | ||
for the current benefit year, other than benefits applicable to the | ||
waiting period [ |
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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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 931 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 931 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
15, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |