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.