Bill Text: TX SB1689 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to claimant eligibility and initial claims under the unemployment compensation system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1689 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1689-Introduced.html
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By: Birdwell | S.B. No. 1689 |
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relating to claimant eligibility and initial claims under the | ||
unemployment compensation system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 207.021(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Chapter 215, an unemployed | ||
individual is eligible to receive benefits for a benefit period if | ||
the individual: | ||
(1) has registered for work at an employment office | ||
and has continued to report to the employment office as required by | ||
rules adopted by the commission; | ||
(2) has made a claim for benefits under Section | ||
208.001; | ||
(3) is able to work; | ||
(4) is available for work; | ||
(5) is actively seeking work in accordance with rules | ||
adopted by the commission; | ||
(6) for the individual's base period, has benefit wage | ||
credits: | ||
(A) in at least two calendar quarters; and | ||
(B) in an amount not less than 37 times the | ||
individual's benefit amount; | ||
(7) after the beginning date of the individual's most | ||
recent prior benefit year, if applicable, earned wages in an amount | ||
equal to not less than six times the individual's benefit amount; | ||
(8) has been totally or partially unemployed for a | ||
waiting period of at least seven consecutive days; [ |
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(9) participates in reemployment services, such as a | ||
job search assistance service, if the individual has been | ||
determined, according to a profiling system established by the | ||
commission, to be likely to exhaust eligibility for regular | ||
benefits and to need those services to obtain new employment, | ||
unless: | ||
(A) the individual has completed participation | ||
in such a service; or | ||
(B) there is reasonable cause, as determined by | ||
the commission, for the individual's failure to participate in | ||
those services; and | ||
(10) has satisfied any outstanding obligation in | ||
relation to benefits improperly received by the individual as a | ||
result of a wilful nondisclosure or misrepresentation of a material | ||
fact described by Section 214.003, including the amount of any | ||
penalty assessed against the individual under that section, but | ||
only if the benefit period for which the individual is seeking | ||
benefits is not in the same benefit year in which the nondisclosure | ||
or misrepresentation of a material fact occurred. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 208.002(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) When used in connection with an initial claim, "last | ||
work" and "person for whom the claimant last worked" refer to [ |
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whom the claimant last worked. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |