76R10870 PB-F
By George H.B. No. 2507
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2507:
By George C.S.H.B. No. 2507
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to status as an employer under a workers' compensation
1-3 insurance policy or certificate of authority to self-insure.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 408.001(a), Labor Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Recovery of workers' compensation benefits is the
1-8 exclusive remedy of an employee covered by workers' compensation
1-9 insurance coverage or a legal beneficiary for the death of, or a
1-10 work-related injury sustained by, the employee against:
1-11 (1) the employer;
1-12 (2) a parent corporation of the employer, a subsidiary
1-13 corporation of the employer, or any other subsidiary of the parent
1-14 corporation of the employer, that:
1-15 (A) is a named insured on the employer's policy
1-16 of workers' compensation insurance; or
1-17 (B) is covered by a certificate of authority to
1-18 self-insure issued by the commission under Chapter 407; or
1-19 (3) an agent or employee of a person described by
1-20 Subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection [the employer for the
1-21 death of or a work-related injury sustained by the employee].
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-23 applies only to a claim for workers' compensation benefits based on
1-24 a compensable injury that occurs on or after that date. A claim
2-1 based on a compensable injury that occurs before that date is
2-2 governed by the law in effect on the date that the compensable
2-3 injury occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-4 purpose.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.