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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  Section 413.005, Labor Code, is repealed.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.