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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