By: Turner S.B. No. 1185
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the inclusion of a psychologist on the medical advisory
1-2 committee appointed by the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 413.005, Labor Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The medical advisory committee is composed of members
1-7 appointed by the commission as follows:
1-8 (1) a representative of a public health care facility;
1-9 (2) a representative of a private health care
1-10 facility;
1-11 (3) a doctor of medicine;
1-12 (4) a doctor of osteopathic medicine;
1-13 (5) a chiropractor;
1-14 (6) a dentist;
1-15 (7) a physical therapist;
1-16 (8) a pharmacist;
1-17 (9) a podiatrist;
1-18 (10) a psychologist;
1-19 (11) an occupational therapist;
1-20 (12) <(11)> a medical equipment supplier;
1-21 (13) <(12)> a registered nurse;
1-22 (14) <(13)> a representative of employers;
1-23 (15) <(14)> a representative of employees; and
2-1 (16) <(15)> two representatives of the general public.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.