HBA-TYH H.B. 1333 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1333
By: Hardcastle
Economic Development
6/2/1999
Enrolled



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Prior to the 76th Legislature, employers were mailed notices of maximum
potential chargebacks of unemployment benefits paid to their former
employees.  These chargebacks to their unemployment tax accounts were
included in the formula for calculating their tax rates and could have
resulted in an increase in the tax rates.  Employers were given 14 days to
protest their chargebacks.  This time frame may have led to late responses,
which resulted in automatic chargebacks to the employers' accounts.  H.B.
1333 increases the time allowed for employers to protest chargebacks to
their unemployment tax accounts from 14 to 30 days.  Benefit payments to
unemployed claimants would not be affected. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 204.024, Labor Code, to change the time limit
within which an employer may protest potential chargebacks under the
unemployment compensation system from within 14 days to within 30 days
after the date the notice of the employer's maximum potential chargebacks
is mailed. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.
  Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.