Texas Labor Code Title 4, Chapter 201 - Unemployment Compensation Act--general Provisions

SUBCHAPTER A SHORT TITLE; APPLICATION OF SUNSET ACT

SUBCHAPTER B GENERAL DEFINITIONS

• Texas Section 201.001 - Short Title
  This subtitle may be cited as the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
• Texas Section 201.011 - General Definitions
  In this subtitle: (1) "Base period" means: (A) the four consecutive completed calendar quarters, prescribed by the commission, in the five consecutive completed calendar quarters...

SUBCHAPTER C DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER

• Texas Section 201.012 - Definition Of Misconduct
  (a) "Misconduct" means mismanagement of a position of employment by action or inaction, neglect that jeopardizes the life or property of another, intentional wrongdoing or...
• Texas Section 201.021 - General Definition Of Employer
  (a) In this subtitle, "employer" means an employing unit that: (1) paid wages of $1,500 or more during a calendar quarter in the current or...
• Texas Section 201.022 - Effect Of Business Acquisition
  In this subtitle, "employer" also means an individual or employing unit that acquires or otherwise receives, through any means, all or part of the organization,...
• Texas Section 201.023 - Tax-exempt Nonprofit Organization
  In this subtitle, "employer" also means an employing unit that: (1) is a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C....
• Texas Section 201.024 - Election To Be Employer
  In this subtitle, "employer" also means an employing unit that has elected to become an employer under Section 205.001, 205.002, 206.002, or 206.003. Acts 1993,...
• Texas Section 201.025 - Employer Under Federal Law
  In this subtitle, "employer" also means: (1) an employing unit that is liable for the payment of taxes under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (26...
• Texas Section 201.026 - State; Political Subdivision
  In this subtitle, "employer" also means a state, a political subdivision of a state, or an instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a...
• Texas Section 201.027 - Employer Of Domestic Service Worker
  (a) In this subtitle, "employer" also means an employing unit that paid cash wages of $1,000 or more during a calendar quarter in the current...
• Texas Section 201.028 - Employer Of Farm And Ranch Laborer
  (a) In this subtitle, "employer" also means an employing unit that paid wages for, or employed individuals in, farm and ranch labor in accordance with...
• Texas Section 201.029 - Temporary Help Firm
  For purposes of this subtitle, a temporary help firm is the employer of an individual employed by the firm as a temporary employee. Added by...

SUBCHAPTER D DEFINITION OF EMPLOYMENT

• Texas Section 201.030 - Professional Employer Organization
  For the purposes of this subtitle, "professional employer organization" has the meaning assigned by Section 91.001. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1379, Sec....
• Texas Section 201.041 - General Definition Of Employment
  In this subtitle, "employment" means a service, including service in interstate commerce, performed by an individual for wages or under an express or implied contract...
• Texas Section 201.042 - Service Of Driver Or Salesman
  In this subtitle, "employment" includes service: (1) as an agent-driver or commission-driver who delivers a meat product, vegetable product, fruit product, bakery product, laundry, dry...
• Texas Section 201.043 - Location Of Service
  (a) In this subtitle, "employment" includes service performed in this state or in and outside this state if: (1) the service is localized in this...
• Texas Section 201.044 - Service Under Reciprocal Agreement
  In this subtitle, "employment" includes service that is performed by an individual and that is covered by a reciprocal agreement under this subtitle between the...
• Texas Section 201.045 - Service On Vessel Or Aircraft
  In this subtitle, "employment" includes service performed on or in connection with an American vessel or aircraft if: (1) the service is employment under Section...
• Texas Section 201.046 - Employment To Assist Employee Or Agent
  (a) An individual employed to perform or to assist in performing the work of an employee or agent of an employing unit is employed by...
• Texas Section 201.047 - Farm And Ranch Labor As Employment
  (a) Farm and ranch labor is employment for the purposes of this subtitle if the labor: (1) is performed by a seasonal worker employed on...

SUBCHAPTER E EXCEPTIONS TO EMPLOYMENT

• Texas Section 201.048 - Service For Indian Tribe
  Except as provided by Sections 201.063 and 201.067, in this subtitle, "employment" includes service performed in the employ of an Indian tribe if the services...
• Texas Section 201.061 - Service Eligible Under Act Of Congress
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service for which unemployment compensation is payable under an unemployment compensation system established by an Act of Congress....
• Texas Section 201.062 - Service Under Arrangement With Agency
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service under an arrangement that is between the commission and the agency that administers another state's or a...
• Texas Section 201.063 - Certain Government Service
  (a) In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service in the employ of a political subdivision or of an instrumentality of a political subdivision...
• Texas Section 201.064 - Domestic Service
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include domestic service in a private home, local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority,...
• Texas Section 201.065 - Service By Relative
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service of an individual in the employ of the individual's son, daughter, or spouse; or (2) service...
• Texas Section 201.066 - Religious Service
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service in the employ of: (A) a church; (B) a convention or association of churches; or (C)...
• Texas Section 201.067 - Rehabilitative Service; Work Relief; Exception For Services Performed By Certain Trained Individuals
  (a) In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed: (1) by an individual whose earning capacity is impaired by age, physical impairment, developmental disability,...
• Texas Section 201.068 - Service In Hospital
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service as a student nurse who is: (A) employed by a hospital or a nurses' training school;...
• Texas Section 201.069 - Service Of Student
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service performed in the employ of a school, college, or university by a student who is enrolled...
• Texas Section 201.070 - Service As Product Demonstrator; Salesman
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service by an individual as a product demonstrator if: (A) the service is performed under a written...
• Texas Section 201.071 - Service As Insurance Agent
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service as an insurance agent for which the only remuneration for the service is a commission. Acts 1993,...
• Texas Section 201.072 - Service As Real Estate Broker
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service performed by an individual as a real estate broker or salesperson if: (A) the individual engages...
• Texas Section 201.073 - Delivery Service; Newspaper Delivery Service
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include: (1) service performed for compensation by an individual for a private for-profit delivery service if the individual: (A)...
• Texas Section 201.074 - Service By Inmate
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed by an inmate of a custodial or penal institution. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec....
• Texas Section 201.075 - Service On Fishing Vessel
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed on a fishing vessel normally having a crew of fewer than 10 members if: (1) the...
• Texas Section 201.076 - Included And Excluded Service In Pay Period
  (a) All of the service of an individual performed during a pay period for a person employing the individual is employment if the service performed...
• Texas Section 201.077 - Service By Landman
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed for a private for-profit person by a landman, as defined by Section 1702.324, Occupations Code, if:...

SUBCHAPTER F DEFINITION OF WAGES

• Texas Section 201.078 - Service By Nonresident Alien Agricultural Worker
  In this subtitle, "employment" does not include service performed by a nonresident alien during the period that the alien is temporarily in the United States...
• Texas Section 201.081 - General Definition Of Wages
  In this subtitle, "wages" means all remuneration for personal services, including: (1) the cash value of remuneration paid in a medium other than cash; and...

SUBCHAPTER G TOTAL AND PARTIAL UNEMPLOYMENT

• Texas Section 201.082 - Exceptions To Wages
  In this subtitle, "wages" does not include: (1) that part of the remuneration paid by an employer to an individual for employment during a calendar...

SUBCHAPTER H CONFORMITY WITH FEDERAL STATUTES

• Texas Section 201.091 - Total And Partial Unemployment
  (a) An individual is totally unemployed in a benefit period during which the individual does not perform services for wages in excess of the greater...
• Texas Section 201.101 - Conformity With Federal Statutes
  If the United States secretary of labor holds that Section 91.044(a-1) or a provision of this subtitle does not conform with a federal statute, the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016