76R10739 PB-D By Dunnam H.B. No. 3493 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3493: By Ritter C.S.H.B. No. 3493 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain insurance carrier information required in 1-3 workers' compensation proceedings. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 410.164, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) At each contested case hearing, as applicable, the 1-8 insurance carrier shall file with the hearing officer and shall 1-9 deliver to the claimant a single document stating the true 1-10 corporate name of the insurance carrier and the name and address of 1-11 the insurance carrier's registered agent for service of process. 1-12 The document is part of the record of the contested case hearing. 1-13 SECTION 2. Section 410.204, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-14 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-15 (d) Each final decision of the appeals panel shall conclude 1-16 with a separate paragraph stating: "The true corporate name of the 1-17 insurance carrier is (NAME IN BOLD PRINT) and the name and address 1-18 of its registered agent for service of process is (NAME AND ADDRESS 1-19 IN BOLD PRINT)." 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-21 applies only to a workers' compensation hearing that is conducted 1-22 on or after that date. A hearing that is conducted before that 1-23 date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the hearing 1-24 was conducted, and the former law is continued in effect for that 2-1 purpose. 2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.