By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1882
97S0458/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to determining the level of impairment of certain
1-2 employees.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 408.124, Labor Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The commission shall use for determining the existence
1-7 and degree of an employee's impairment "Guides to the Evaluation of
1-8 Permanent Impairment," fourth [third] edition, second printing,
1-9 dated June, 1993 [February 1989], published by the American Medical
1-10 Association.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.