By Counts H.B. No. 2782
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to appeals from decisions of the Texas Workers'
1-3 Compensation Insurance Facility to the State Board of Insurance.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 2.08, Article 5.76-2,
1-6 Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The board shall set for hearing <hear> the appeal from
1-8 an act or decision of the facility not later than the 30th day
1-9 after the day the request for hearing is made. The board shall
1-10 notify the facility and the appellant in writing of the time and
1-11 place of the hearing not later than the 10th day before the date of
1-12 the hearing. Not later than the 30th day after the last day of the
1-13 hearing, the board shall affirm, reverse, or modify the facility's
1-14 <its previous action on the> act appealed to the board.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.