74R11767 JMM-F
          By Madden                                              H.B. No. 584
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 584:
          By Oliveira                                        C.S.H.B. No. 584
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a  finding of fact, conclusion of law, or other
    1-3  decision made by the Texas Employment Commission.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 213.007, Labor Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 213.007.  COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL DOCTRINE INAPPLICABLE.  A
    1-8  finding of fact, conclusion of law, judgment, or final order made
    1-9  regarding a claim for benefits under this subtitle is not binding
   1-10  and may not be used as evidence in an action or proceeding,
   1-11  including an administrative proceeding of a state agency other than
   1-12  the commission <other than an action or proceeding brought under
   1-13  this subtitle>, even if the action or proceeding is between the
   1-14  same or related parties or involves the same facts.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.