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By Woolley 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. The commission may
1-7 appoint ad hoc medical advisory committees [in addition to the
1-8 medical advisory committee] as it considers necessary.
1-9 SECTION 2. Section 413.005, Labor Code, is repealed.
1-10 SECTION 3. The medical advisory committee to the Texas
1-11 Workers' Compensation Commission is abolished on the effective date
1-12 of this Act. All property and records belonging to the state that
1-13 are in the possession of that advisory committee on the day before
1-14 the effective date of this Act shall be transferred to the Texas
1-15 Workers' Compensation Commission not later than the 30th day after
1-16 the effective date of this Act.
1-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.