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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