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


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1333
By: Hardcastle
Economic Development
3/10/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, employers are mailed notices of maximum potential
chargebacks of unemployment benefits paid to their former employees.  These
chargebacks to their unemployment tax accounts are included in the formula
for calculating their tax rates and can result in an increase in the tax
rates.  Employers are currently given 14 days to protest their chargebacks.
This time frame may lead to late responses, which results 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.