Bill Text: TX HB1055 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility for unemployment benefits of individuals who are unemployed due to certain labor disputes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-16 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB1055 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1055-Engrossed.html
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By: Turner | H.B. No. 1055 |
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relating to the eligibility for unemployment benefits of | ||
individuals who are unemployed due to certain labor disputes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 207.048, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (b), and (f) and adding Subsection (g) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) An individual is disqualified for benefits for a benefit | ||
period in which the individual's total or partial unemployment is | ||
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labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises | ||
where the individual is or was last employed[ |
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(b) Disqualification for benefits under this section does | ||
not apply to an individual who shows to the satisfaction of the | ||
commission that the individual: | ||
(1) is not participating in, financing, or directly | ||
interested in the labor dispute; [ |
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(2) does not belong to a grade or class of workers any | ||
members of which were employed at the premises of the labor dispute | ||
immediately before the beginning of the labor dispute and any of | ||
whom are participating in, financing, or directly interested in the | ||
dispute; | ||
(3) has been locked out of the individual's place of | ||
employment; or | ||
(4) has been placed on emergency leave without pay by | ||
the individual's employer. | ||
(f) For the purposes of this section: | ||
(1) "Locked out" means the denial of entry by an | ||
employer to the place of employment of employees of that employer | ||
who have not: | ||
(A) gone on strike; or | ||
(B) notified the employer of a date on which the | ||
employees intend to go on strike. | ||
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(g) For the purposes of Subsection (b), the payment of | ||
regular union dues by an individual does not constitute financing a | ||
labor dispute. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |