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.