1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 885
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 March 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to workers' compensation benefits for professional
1-9 athletes employed by the International Hockey League.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 406.095, Labor Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (c) In this section, "professional athlete" means a person
1-14 employed as a professional athlete by a franchise of:
1-15 (1) the National Football League;
1-16 (2) the National Basketball Association;
1-17 (3) the American League of Professional Baseball
1-18 Clubs; <or>
1-19 (4) the National League of Professional Baseball
1-20 Clubs; or
1-21 (5) the International Hockey League.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28 passage, and it is so enacted.
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