Bill Text: TX HB199 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual during a benefit year under the state unemployment insurance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB199 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB199-Introduced.html
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| By: DeAyala | H.B. No. 199 | |
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| relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to | ||
| an individual during a benefit year under the state unemployment | ||
| insurance program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 207, Labor Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 207.0055 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 207.0055. MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF BENEFITS; SLIDING SCALE. | ||
| (a) In this section, "state average unemployment rate" means the | ||
| average seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in this state, as | ||
| published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, during | ||
| the most recent completed calendar year quarter preceding the first | ||
| day of an individual's benefit year. | ||
| (b) The maximum amount of benefits payable to an eligible | ||
| individual during a benefit year is an amount determined by the | ||
| state average unemployment rate on a sliding scale as follows: | ||
| (1) 14 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is not greater than 6.5 percent; | ||
| (2) 15 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is at least 6.6 percent but not greater than 7 percent; | ||
| (3) 16 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is at least 7.1 percent but not greater than 7.5 percent; | ||
| (4) 17 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is at least 7.6 percent but not greater than 8 percent; | ||
| (5) 18 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is at least 8.1 percent but not greater than 8.5 percent; | ||
| (6) 19 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is at least 8.6 percent but not greater than 9 percent; | ||
| (7) 20 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is greater than 9 percent but not greater than 9.5 percent; | ||
| (8) 21 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is at least 9.6 percent but not greater than 10 percent; and | ||
| (9) 27 times the individual's benefit amount, if the | ||
| rate is greater than 10 percent. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 215.043(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) An individual is not entitled to receive shared work | ||
| benefits and regular unemployment compensation benefits that | ||
| exceed the maximum total benefits payable to the individual in a | ||
| benefit year as provided by Section 207.0055 [ |
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| SECTION 3. Section 207.005, Labor Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act takes effect January 1, 2026. | ||
