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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

Texas Unemployment Compensation BrownBuilding Austin 19, Taxas CoMnie8lon

Attention: IEr.TomBullook Hyder
Dear Sir: Opinion MO.O-7404

nd related ;uestions.

this departme Unemployment meritsertloe quested ths opinion of ire to the Texas latering an enployanoe with sereral s stated In your letter, naotment returning to bythe atates to the

, 1942, andthat as aprersqulsof this department on the fob

the Texas Uncunplo~ent Compensation asa8 UnamplogmentCorrlpensatlon Camauthority to submit aplan and admlnismplopent Senloa in l ooordanoe with une 6, 1933 (48 STAT113) aa amended?

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Texas UnemploymentCompensation Cortission, Pace 2

“2. Does the Texas Unemployment COLensation Aot give the Texas Unenployment Compensatson Comalsrlon the authority to s&nit s plan andadinlnlster aState Employment Se~ioe whloh would ocxnply with the requirements of the Servloemen~s ReadjustrnentAct 

### of 1944, as amended?
“3. Does the Texas Unemployment 

### Compensation Aot give the Texae Unemployment Compensation Canmission the authority to operate 

### aState Rmployment Service as oontemplated in the Labor-Federal Seourity Appropriation Bill, 19477
TheCongress of 

### the United States oreeted aUnSted States EmploymentEervioe in order et.0proluote anddevelop a 

### national systan of employment offioes 

### for men, women, and 

### ju#dors whoare legally qualified to enge8e in gainrul oocupations,. to maintain aveterans’ servioe to ’ 

### be devoted 

### to scouring employment 

### ror veterans, to maintain a rarsi plaoement service, to maintain a public employment senior ior the Distriot of Columbia, and, in the mannerprovided in seotions 490, 49d, 49e--49k of this title, to essist in establiahlng andmaintaining systems of pub110 e;lploymcnt ofrioeo in the several Staten 6r.dthe political subdivisions thereof in wiaioh there shall be loo&ted a veterans’ amploynent service. The bureau shall also assist in ooordinating the Rub110employment offioes throughout the oountry.and in iaoreasing their usefulness bydeveloping and prescribing minimumstandards Or effiolenoy, assistin& themin meeting problems peoullar to their looallties, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statlstloal prooedure, furnishing and publishing Intomtlon as to opportunities for emploJrmentand other Information of value in the operation of the system, andmaintaining a system ror olearing labor between the eeveral States.” 29USCA 49b (48 STAT114).

Theprimary purpose of establishing suah a bureau was to organize and put into erreot a mr0M system 0r employment men-iae throughout the United States. This 

### service was to be operated by the various states with assistanoe, finanoial andotherwise, frcsn the federal government. In order to obtain 

### this asnistanoe or benefit 

### as it is oalled in :he Act, each state was required through its 1OSlslatUre to aooept

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Texas Unemployment Compensation Commission, Page 3

thr provisions and 

### oonditlons or this Aot

### and l 

### aoh state was to deslgmte 

### the stats agenoy to oooperatr with ths Unltod 3tates B@oyxent Sonloo. Purthermore saoh #tat@wa8mquirod 

### to submit aplan In oonnootion with r@Osltllrg this as8lstsnoe.

‘Pbo8tato of Tssas 

### rooepted them prwl8lons and 

### oondltions sontalnsd In CsSTATll3 In 1936 by an aot oodifled byVernon’s as Art1018 5221bw10. 88 quote iruii apart thereof 

### as folluwsr

*Texas State Xmployme.;tServloe, as provided ror under A& 0r 

### thr ?ortprourth Lsglslaturs, Regular Session, 

### Chepter 236, page 552 

### is hereby transferred to the 

### Commission as 

### a division thereor. 

### TheConmission, through suoh dltislon, ahall 

### establish and 

### maintain 

### rree pub110 employment oifloss in suoh numberandin rush plaoes as may be neoessary tor tha DroDer administration of this 

### Aot, and r0i DUmOSOSv OrekrOminp: suoh duties 

### as are w’ithl th purvl 888 entitled ’ r the Aot or COnRr

Ai A$ to srZod8 

### ror the establlahment 0r 

### anational smDloyment system and for OooDeration with the Stat68 in the prmotlon of suoh systam and 

### ror other purposes,’ approved June 6 1933, (48 Stat. 113; u. 8. c., Title 29, Seotion 49 fo)), as mended. It ihall bs the’duty of-the 

### Cos&ulsslon to oooperate 

### with any oiiloial or 

### sgenay or the United States having powers

### or duties under the prorlslons of the raid Aot of 

### Congress, 88 

### amended, and 

### to doandperfona all things 

### neoessarp to 

### seoure to this State the benerlts of the said aot 

### or Congress, as amended, In the prcmotlon andPralntenanoe of a systsm ot pub

### 110 mployment orrio88, Thepalslons or the said Aot 

### of Congrsss, 

### as amended, sri 

### hereby l oospted 

### by this State In oonformlty with Seotlon 4 of said Aot, 

### andthis State will observe and oomplywith the rsqulrements thereoi. TheTexas Unamploymnt 

### Compensation Commission Is hereby designated and

### oonstltuted the l genoy of this State ror

### the purposes of said Aot. The ixreotor, 

### other orrloers 

### and employees ot the 

### Texas Stats kployment Ssnloe shall bs a

### pointed by 

### the a&-tisslon ln aooordanoe with regulat

### P on8 prosoribed by 

### the Dlreotor of the United 

### States Saplop 

### ment Senloe. s (Baphasls added).Texas Unemployment Co~tipenautionCommlsslon, i:a.;e 4

It will be noted from the fOregOin(J that the Texas Legislature to 

### the iulleet extent aooepted the provisions and oonditlons set forth in the federal sot anddeolgnated the 

### Texas Unsmploymsnt Compensation Oc~aisslon as the l 

### gensy to operate the employment senioe in Texas md as the agensy to oooperate with 

### the United Ststes 

### irPploymont Serrioe in every 

### respeot. Theanswer, therefore, to rour ilrst question 1s that the Texas Unemployment Co;.gensation 

### Candssion oan administer an employment senior in aooordanoe with the provisions of the Aot of June 6, 1933 (48 STAT113) and oan submit a plan to the proper federal agenoy in oonneotlon therewith,

. Sinoe the oreation of the United States mploymont 3ervioe, the funotlons of this bureau here been oonsolidated at dlfferont timeo with the duties of various departuentc of the federal 

### goverment. such funotions were under the supervision of the Cheimian of the Karkanpower Commission from septomber, 1942, to Its diccolutlon in 1946.

It wcs durin; the tine that the funotiona of tho United States .%ployment Yervioe wasunder the supervlslon of t5.u:Yer!‘anpowor Zormlssion t!lat the SonCress of tho United statea in l;jI+L+

enaoted w>mtis PCOWTI as the Sorvice-en*s 2809justnent Act. (29 u;;:.l ~;cc. 693). Theozploy~ect service feature of this .:,ct yia3ed~::iristcred by 

### e board ecoistic& the United :‘tates &plogwsnt :crvice. Thedutiao ossigacd umcr this Act oorrespondad with thoce of the *\otof Juno6, 1933, with tho exoqtiorls that it pertained particularly to vetorans, (29 USCASec. 695a). In other words, the fumti0n.e of the United States %ploynent Service waebroadened so as to deal specirloally with veterans.

Uponthe dissolution of the gar I..anpOwer CO&ission, th4 functions of the United States %~plOymentSePvics wee transferred to the UeEartment of Labor, and it Is through this depertzent that th.e fedoral 

### ~overr-snt is roturnlng the employment aervloo to the statas. Ihe Labor-Fe;<eral Seourity A~propriation aill, 1947, whloh provides 

### ror the return of this service to the states provides in part as follows:



### nFor grents to the soreral States (including Alaska andHawaii), beginning Nov4akb4r16, 1946, in aooordaroe with tha nrorisiohs of tho Act of June 1932, as amended (29 U.s.
. 49-491) , andror

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Texas Unemployment Cmpensatlon &mission,

.age 5

oarrrlng into err& motion 602

### or the

### senior-
~en’s Resdjustumnt Aot or 1944, inoludlng, upon the rec,urst 

### ormy State, the payment or rental tor spaor madeavallablr to suah State in lieu o&ran;” ior muchpurpose, $42,8??3 125 of whloh

shall be available to the 6nlt:d States ~%np&ment Servloe r0r all 

### neoeesary expenses, in- ’ oludlng personal sorvloea, in oonnootlon with the operation 0r ~ployment orrioe ra0iiities and aenioes in the Artriot or Coluubla: Z’rovlded, That no State shall be 

### rewired to rake any

‘<’ aomowlatlon as Provided 

### in motion 5 (a) 0r said 7rot or June a. *05amended; prior to 1 1 1946 193$

: Provided further That notwlthe~aklldg the provisions of 

### seohon 5 (ai and section 

### 6 of the Act or June 

### 6. 1933 as mended, the Seorotary or Labor shall iron t ‘e to time certify to the Seoretary or ‘theTreas?lry 

### ror payrmnt to ecoh State found to be in oanpllanoe with the re~ulrenenta ot the Aot of June 6, 1933, as amended suoh amounts as he deternines to be necessary foi the proper anderriolent admlnistratlon of its pub110 employment orflces.
Wn Kovenber 15, 19&b, the Secretary of Labor shall transfer. to the state arrency in eaoh State designated u&r motion 4or the Act of Cori~mss approved June 

### 6. ‘

1933 as amended as the agenoy to administer the ;itat&lde eyetea & publio employnent oftloos in eooperutlon-with the-united Statbe mplogment Servioe under said Aot, the operation of State ard looal pub110 employment oifloe raollltles andproperties w!lloh were transrerred by suoh State to the Federal Government in 1942 to pronote the national war errort.

. . .” (tiphas added).
It will be noted from.readinS the above r,uotatlon, with particular notice to the emphasis supplied, that the oondltlons uponwhloh thl; employment service is to be returned are prlmrlly t’.ose sst rorth in the kot of June 6, 1933. A8 heretofore mentioned, the ‘fexas Unemployment CmpensatlonTexas Ummployuent 

### Co:.ipensatlon Coml:~slon, sage 6 

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Conmission has 

### been erpeolally designated 

### to oooparate with the rrderal 

### government in this reopeot. Seotlon 602 

### or the Ser’vloaen*e 

### Readjustment Aot 

### of 1944 prwldea that oertaln amployeea on the 8tart or the looal unployment senlae should wmaa;ly devote their servloea to the dutlea preaorlbed In

. Thlr IOmroly requiring the looal amployment zarvioe to hava some of its amployaw~ to wzpsolalIza~ In aiding veteran8. ‘&Is itaoertainly not repugnant to any authority given 

### the Texas Unemployment Qompeneatlon Commlsalon In oper

### ating anomplogmeat rervior. wehave 

### roundnothing In **thee** 

### rederal aots would prevent the Texas Unemployment Compensation Oormiaslon iron 

### subciIttln8 plans andadmlnleterlne an employmant rervloe in aooordanoe with 

### the provlelons ofthe aotu mentioned in your aeoond andthird questions. Yetherefore amwer these cuestlona In the artlrmatlve.
Youra very truly 

### Youravery truly
ATT-7 G3f?XAL OFTSXAS

G3f?XAL

### OF

Assistant