By: Brown S.B. No. 885
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to workers' compensation benefits for professional
1-2 athletes employed by the International Hockey League.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 406.095, Labor Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) In this section, "professional athlete" means a person
1-7 employed as a professional athlete by a franchise of:
1-8 (1) the National Football League;
1-9 (2) the National Basketball Association;
1-10 (3) the American League of Professional Baseball
1-11 Clubs; <or>
1-12 (4) the National League of Professional Baseball
1-13 Clubs; or
1-14 (5) the International Hockey League.
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.