Bill Text: TX SB92 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of an alternative base period for computation of unemployment compensation benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-31 - Referred to Economic Development [SB92 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB92-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 92 | |
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| relating to the adoption of an alternative base period for | ||
| computation of unemployment compensation benefits. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 201.011(1), Labor Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 201, Labor Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 201.013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 201.013. DEFINITION OF BASE PERIOD; ALTERNATE BASE | ||
| PERIODS. (a) For purposes of this subtitle and subject to this | ||
| section, an individual's base period is the four consecutive | ||
| completed calendar quarters, prescribed by the commission, in the | ||
| five consecutive completed calendar quarters preceding the first | ||
| day of an individual's benefit year. | ||
| (b) For an individual precluded because of a medically | ||
| verifiable injury or illness from working during a major part of a | ||
| calendar quarter of the period that would otherwise be the | ||
| individual's base period under Subsection (a), the base period is | ||
| the first four calendar quarters of the five consecutive calendar | ||
| quarters preceding the calendar quarter in which the illness began | ||
| or the injury occurred if the individual files an initial claim for | ||
| benefits not later than 24 months after the date on which the | ||
| individual's injury or illness began or occurred. | ||
| (c) For an individual who does not have sufficient benefit | ||
| wage credits to qualify for benefits under the computation of the | ||
| base period as provided by Subsection (a) or (b), the base period is | ||
| the four most recently completed calendar quarters preceding the | ||
| first day of the individual's benefit year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies only to eligibility for | ||
| unemployment compensation benefits based on a claim that is 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, 2011. | ||
