Bill Text: TX SB2102 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to removing the waiting period for unemployment benefit eligibility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-01 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2102 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2102-Introduced.html
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By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 2102 |
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relating to removing the waiting period for unemployment benefit | ||
eligibility. | ||
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; | ||
and | ||
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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. | ||
SECTION 2. The following provisions are repealed: | ||
(1) Sections 207.021(b) and (c), Labor Code; and | ||
(2) Section 207.0212, Labor Code. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |