Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2323 amends provisions of the Labor Code relating to judicial review of an appeals panel decision at the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission. The bill specifies that if a suit is filed for judicial review in a venue other than the county where the employee resided at the time of injury, onset of occupational disease-related disability, or death, the court is required to transfer the suit to a proper court in the county. The bill provides that the suit is considered to be timely filed in the court to which it is transferred if it was filed initially within 40 days of the date on which the decision of the appeals panel was filed with the commission.