How Decreasing Unemployment Benefits Would Have Short Changed Texas Families and the Economy Over the Last 30 Years 

Weeks less than the 26 (standard) available to UI claimants under HB 199. HB 199 will tie the number of unemployment benefit weeks to the statewide average unemployment rate. This bill will severely reduce the number of weeks that recently laid off Texans can collect unemployment insurance while searching for their next job.

Apr-June 2020 is the only time in the last 30 years that TX unemployment went above 10%
Looking back: If HB 199, as proposed today, had passed in 1995, most Texans that experienced job loss would have lost 12 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits.
Chart: Every Texan Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Every Texan analysis of HB 199Download imageCreated with Datawrapper