By:  Barrientos                              S.B. No. 1881

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the assignment of a rating to the level of impairment

 1-2     of certain employees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 408.124, Labor Code, is amended by adding

 1-5     Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-6           (c)  In making the final determination of the employee's

 1-7     impairment rating, the employee's age, education, and work

 1-8     experience shall be considered.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.