CONTRIBUTION REQUIRED
Known as the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 201.001 to 215.044 (345 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Hathcock v. Acme Truck Lines, Inc. (2001)
Most recently applied in Hous. Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Tex. Workforce Comm'n (April 2019)
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) An employer shall pay a contribution on wages for employment paid during a calendar year or the portion of the calendar year in which the employer is subject to this subtitle.
(b) The contribution shall be paid to the commission in accordance with rules adopted by the commission.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.