DISCHARGE FOR MISCONDUCT
Known as the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 201–215 (345 sections).
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case Collingsworth General Hospital v. Hunnicutt (1998)
Most recently applied in Texas Workforce Commission v. Harris County Appraisal District (March 2016)
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 individual is disqualified for benefits if the individual was discharged for misconduct connected with the individual's last work.
(b) Disqualification under this section continues until the individual has returned to employment and:
(1) worked for six weeks; or
(2) earned wages equal to six times the individual's benefit amount.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.