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House Bill 2466 |
House Author: Collier et al. |
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Effective: Vetoed |
Senate Sponsor: Eltife |
House Bill 2466 amends the Labor Code to require the commissioner of workers' compensation to establish a safety reimbursement program designed to assist eligible employers in the creation of safe and healthy workplaces for employees of Texas.
Reason Given for Veto: "One way for government to grow is by the addition of large, high-profile new state programs. That kind of government growth is easy to spot and relatively simple to guard against. Perhaps more often, however, government growth takes place through the accumulation over time of many small additions to the bureaucratic state. Each one may seem like a benign, low-cost effort to address discrete problems thought to be facing society. But when viewed together, they amount to a massive expansion of the size, scope, and cost of government. Once in place, these programs tend only to get bigger and more costly. Many people come to rely on or become financially interested in the program's continued existence, which makes it difficult to reduce in size, much less eliminate.
"House Bill 2466 creates just such a program. Texas has been doing pretty well without a safety reimbursement program run by the Department of Insurance. To stay strong, we should resist the needless growth of government even in small ways."