Bill Text: TX HB625 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 625 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to notice of staff leasing services company workers' compensation claim and payment information; providing an administrative violation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB625 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB625-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 625




	AN ACT
	relating to notice of staff leasing services company workers'
	compensation claim and payment information; providing an
	administrative violation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Section 91.042, Labor Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 91.042. WORKERS' COMPENSATION INSURANCE;
	ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATION.
	SECTION 2. Section 91.042, Labor Code, is amended by adding
	Subsections (g), (h), and (i) to read as follows:
	(g) On the written request of a client company, a license
	holder that elects to provide workers' compensation insurance for
	assigned employees shall provide to the client company a list of:
	(1) claims associated with that client company made
	against the license holder's workers' compensation policy; and
	(2) payments made and reserves established on each
	claim.
	(h) The license holder shall provide the information
	described by Subsection (g) in writing from the license holder's
	own records, if the license holder is a qualified self-insurer, or
	from information the license holder received from the license
	holder's workers' compensation insurance provider following the
	license holder's request under Section 2051.151, Insurance Code,
	not later than the 60th day after the date the license holder
	receives the client company's written request. For purposes of this
	subsection, information is considered to be provided to the client
	company on the date the information is:
	(1) received by the United States Postal Service; or
	(2) personally delivered to the client company.
	(i) A license holder that fails to comply with Subsection
	(g) or (h) commits a Class D administrative violation as provided by
	Section 415.011.
	SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 415, Labor Code, is
	amended by adding Section 415.011 to read as follows:
	Sec. 415.011. NOTICE OF STAFF LEASING SERVICES COMPANY
	WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIM AND PAYMENT INFORMATION;
	ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection
	(c), a staff leasing services company license holder commits a
	violation if the license holder fails to provide the information
	required by Sections 91.042(g) and (h).
	(b) A violation under Subsection (a) is an administrative
	violation.
	(c) A staff leasing services company license holder does not
	commit an administrative violation under this section if the
	license holder requested the information required by Sections
	91.042(g) and (h) from the license holder's workers' compensation
	insurance provider and the provider does not provide the
	information to the license holder within the required time. A
	license holder shall notify the Texas Department of Insurance of a
	provider's failure to comply with the requirements of Section
	2051.151, Insurance Code.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 625 was passed by the House on April
	26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 625 was passed by the Senate on May
	17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0
	.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor