H.B. No. 1939




AN ACT

relating to certain disqualifications for unemployment 
compensation benefits for assigned employees of staff leasing 
services companies.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 207.045(i), Labor Code, is amended to 
read as follows:   
	(i)  An assigned employee of a staff leasing services company 
is considered to have left the assigned employee's last work 
without good cause if the staff leasing services company 
demonstrates that:
		(1)  at the time the employee's assignment to a client 
company concluded, the staff leasing services company, or the 
client company acting on the staff leasing services company's 
behalf, gave written notice and written instructions to the 
assigned employee to contact the staff leasing services company for 
a new assignment [on termination of assignment at a client 
company]; and
		(2)  the assigned employee did not contact the staff 
leasing services company regarding reassignment or continued 
employment; provided that the assigned employee may show that good 
cause existed for the assigned employee's failure to contact the 
staff leasing services company.
	SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to 
a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that is filed with 
the Texas Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of 
this Act.  A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in 
effect on the date the claim was filed, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1939 was passed by the House on April 
14, 2005, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in 
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1939 on May 27, 2005, by a non-record 
vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 1939 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 
0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor