LABOR CODE

CHAPTER 211. RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS


	§ 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, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 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, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 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, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 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, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 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, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 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, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.