By Dunnam H.B. No. 3494 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain information required to be included in the 1-3 record of a workers' compensation contested case hearing. 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 document stating the corporate name of 1-10 the insurance carrier and the name and address of the insurance 1-11 carrier's registered agent for service of process. The document is 1-12 part of the record of the contested case hearing. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-14 applies only to a workers' compensation contested case hearing that 1-15 is initiated on or after that date. A contested case hearing that 1-16 is initiated before that date is governed by the law in effect on 1-17 the date that the hearing was initiated, and the former law is 1-18 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.