By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1883
97S0457/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the time period for determining maximum medical
1-2 improvement under the workers' compensation law.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (30), Section 401.011, Labor Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (30) "Maximum medical improvement" means [the earlier
1-7 of:]
1-8 [(A)] the earliest date after which, based on
1-9 reasonable medical probability, further material recovery from or
1-10 lasting improvement to an injury can no longer reasonably be
1-11 anticipated[; or]
1-12 [(B) the expiration of 104 weeks from the date
1-13 on which income benefits begin to accrue].
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1997.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.