By George H.B. No. 2507
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the named insured on a workers' compensation policy
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 408.001, Labor Code is amended by adding
1-5 the following:
1-6 Sec. 408.001. Exclusive Remedy; Exemplary Damages. (a)
1-7 Recovery of workers' compensation benefits is the exclusive remedy
1-8 of an employee covered by workers' compensation insurance coverage
1-9 or a legal beneficiary against the employer, or the parent
1-10 corporation, subsidiary corporation, or subsidiary of the parent
1-11 corporation of the employer, which are named insureds on the same
1-12 policy of workers' compensation insurance as the employer or [an]
1-13 their agents or employees [of the employer] for the death of or a
1-14 work related injury sustained by the employee.
1-15 SECTION 2. This act takes effect on September 1, 1999, and
1-16 applies to a compensable injury that occurs on or after that date.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.