1-1 By: Turner S.B. No. 1185
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 16, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 April 20, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; April 20, 1995,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1185 By: Patterson
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the inclusion of a psychologist on the medical advisory
1-11 committee appointed by the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 413.005, Labor Code, is
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 (b) The medical advisory committee is composed of members
1-16 appointed by the commission as follows:
1-17 (1) a representative of a public health care facility;
1-18 (2) a representative of a private health care
1-19 facility;
1-20 (3) a doctor of medicine;
1-21 (4) a doctor of osteopathic medicine;
1-22 (5) a chiropractor;
1-23 (6) a dentist;
1-24 (7) a physical therapist;
1-25 (8) a pharmacist;
1-26 (9) a podiatrist;
1-27 (10) a psychologist;
1-28 (11) an occupational therapist;
1-29 (12) <(11)> a medical equipment supplier;
1-30 (13) <(12)> a registered nurse;
1-31 (14) <(13)> a representative of employers;
1-32 (15) <(14)> a representative of employees; and
1-33 (16) <(15)> two representatives of the general public.
1-34 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-35 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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