By Bivins S.B. No. 925 74R5902 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the elimination of the requirement that contractors who 1-3 contract with a governmental entity maintain workers' compensation 1-4 insurance coverage for certain employees. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 406.096, Labor Code, is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to workers' compensation 1-8 insurance coverage for a compensable injury that occurs on or after 1-9 the effective date of this Act. Coverage for a compensable injury 1-10 that occurs before that date is governed by the law in effect on 1-11 the date that the compensable injury occurred, and the former law 1-12 is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.