CHAPTER 211. RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS
LABOR CODE
TITLE 4. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT
SUBTITLE A. TEXAS UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT
CHAPTER 211. RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Sec. 211.001. LOCATION OF SERVICE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
PURPOSES. The commission may enter into arrangements with an
appropriate agency of another state or a federal agency under
which an individual performing services in this and one or more
other states for an employing unit is considered to be engaged in
employment entirely in:
(1) this state;
(2) one of the other states in which the individual performs
some of the services;
(3) the state of the individual's residence; or
(4) the state in which the employing unit maintains a place of
business.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Sec. 211.002. LOCATION OF SERVICE OF STATE EMPLOYEES. (a) The
commission may enter into a reciprocal arrangement with the
appropriate agency of another state under which a state employee
who performs services in the state that is not the employing
state is considered to be engaged in employment performed
entirely in the employing state.
(b) The commission shall enter the arrangement on request of an
agency of this state that has an employee performing a service in
another state.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Sec. 211.003. COMBINATION OF WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT. The
commission shall participate in an arrangement for the payment of
benefits determined by combining an individual's wages and
employment covered under this subtitle and the wages and
employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of
another state or the United States, or both, if the arrangement
is approved by the United States secretary of labor in
consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies as
reasonably calculated to ensure the prompt and full payment of
benefits. The arrangement must provide for:
(1) applying the base period of one unemployment compensation
law to a claim that combines an individual's wages and employment
covered under two or more unemployment compensation laws; and
(2) avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment because
of the combination.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Sec. 211.004. OFFSET FOR OVERPAYMENT OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, the
commission may enter into a reciprocal arrangement with an
appropriate state or federal agency, or both, that provides:
(1) an overpayment of benefits under this subtitle is recovered
by offset from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under the
unemployment compensation law of another state or of the United
States; and
(2) an overpayment of unemployment benefits under the
unemployment compensation law of the other state or the United
States are recovered by offset from benefits payable under this
subtitle.
(b) A procedure for notice and opportunity for a hearing that
applies to the recovery of an overpayment of unemployment
benefits paid under this subtitle applies to an offset of those
benefits under this section.
(c) In this section, "unemployment benefits" means unemployment
compensation benefits, trade adjustment allowances, and other
unemployment assistance.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Sec. 211.005. INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN COMMERCE. The commission
may enter into a reciprocal arrangement with the appropriate
agency of another state or federal agency, or both, under which
service on a vessel or aircraft engaged in interstate or foreign
commerce for a single employer is considered to be performed in
this state or in another state, regardless of where the service
is performed.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Sec. 211.006. RECIPROCAL TREATMENT BY FEDERAL AGENCY. (a) The
commission may enter into an agreement with the proper agency
under an Act of Congress establishing an unemployment
compensation system to provide reciprocal treatment to an
individual:
(1) who has acquired a right to unemployment compensation under
the Act of Congress after acquiring a potential right to benefits
under this subtitle; or
(2) who has acquired a right to benefits under this subtitle
after acquiring a potential right to unemployment compensation
under the Act of Congress.
(b) An agreement under this section takes effect 10 days after
the date on which the agreement is published in the manner
provided for a rule.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.