Bill Text: TX HB931 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Murphy (Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt) | H.B. No. 931 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015; | ||
April 23, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Natural Resources and Economic Development; May 5, 2015, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 5, 2015, sent | ||
to printer.) |
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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. | ||
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