By Brady, Smithee H.B. No. 2395
74R7022 PB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of professional athletes employed by a
1-3 franchise of the International Hockey League for workers'
1-4 compensation benefits.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 406.095(c), Labor Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (c) In this section, "professional athlete" means a person
1-9 employed as a professional athlete by a franchise of:
1-10 (1) the National Football League;
1-11 (2) the National Basketball Association;
1-12 (3) the American League of Professional Baseball
1-13 Clubs; <or>
1-14 (4) the National League of Professional Baseball
1-15 Clubs; or
1-16 (5) the International Hockey League.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-18 applies only to a claim for workers' compensation benefits based on
1-19 a compensable injury that occurs on or after that date. A claim
1-20 based on a compensable injury that occurs before that date is
1-21 governed by the law in effect on the date that the compensable
1-22 injury occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-23 purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.