By Woolley, Brimer H.B. No. 3038
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to medical review under the workers' compensation system.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 413.006, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 413.006. ADVISORY COMMITTEES. (a) The commission may
1-7 appoint ad hoc medical advisory committees [in addition to the
1-8 medical advisory committee] as it considers necessary. An ad hoc
1-9 medical advisory committee must include at least one doctor who
1-10 practices in each type of practice included in the subject matter
1-11 for which the advisory committee is appointed.
1-12 (b) In the review and revision of medical policies and fee
1-13 guidelines under Section 413.012, the commission shall appoint and
1-14 consider the recommendations of one or more ad hoc medical advisory
1-15 committees.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 413.005, Labor Code, is repealed.
1-17 SECTION 3. The medical advisory committee to the Texas
1-18 Workers' Compensation Commission is abolished on the effective date
1-19 of this Act. All property and records belonging to the state that
1-20 are in the possession of that advisory committee on the day before
1-21 the effective date of this Act shall be transferred to the Texas
1-22 Workers' Compensation Commission not later than the 30th day after
1-23 the effective date of this Act.
1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.