S.B. No. 885
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the eligibility for workers' compensation benefits of
1-2 professional athletes employed by a franchise of the International
1-3 Hockey League or the National Hockey League.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 406.095, Labor Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) In this section, "professional athlete" means a person
1-8 employed as a professional athlete by a franchise of:
1-9 (1) the National Football League;
1-10 (2) the National Basketball Association;
1-11 (3) the American League of Professional Baseball
1-12 Clubs; <or>
1-13 (4) the National League of Professional Baseball
1-14 Clubs;
1-15 (5) the International Hockey League; or
1-16 (6) the National 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.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.