By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1881 97S0456/2 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.