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By:  Ritter (Senate Sponsor - Fraser)                             H.B. No. 1939
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2005; 
April 19, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Business and Commerce; May 19, 2005, reported adversely, with 
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, 
Nays 0; May 19, 2005, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1939                                   By:  Lucio


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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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