S.B. No. 742




AN ACT

relating to disqualification for eligibility for workers' 
compensation benefits of certain professional athletes.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 406.095, Labor Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(c)  In this section, "professional athlete" means a person 
employed as a professional athlete by a franchise of:
		(1)  the National Football League;                                            
		(2)  the National Basketball Association;                                     
		(3)  the American League of Professional Baseball 
Clubs;                    
		(4)  the National League of Professional Baseball 
Clubs;                    
		(5)  the International Hockey League; [or]                   
		(6)  the National Hockey League; or                                    
		(7)  the Central Hockey League.                                        
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only 
to a claim for workers' compensation benefits based on a 
compensable injury that occurs on or after the effective date of 
this Act.  A claim based on a compensable injury that occurs before 
that date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the 
compensable injury occurred, 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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 742 passed the Senate on 
April 11, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 1.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 742 passed the House on 
May 25, 2005, by a non-record vote.




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   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



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          Governor