By Dunnam H.B. No. 3497 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 requirements for the appeal of a hearing 1-3 officer's decision in a workers' compensation proceeding. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 410.202, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays listed in Section 1-8 662.003, Government Code, are not included in a computation of the 1-9 time in which a request for an appeal under Subsection (a) or a 1-10 response under Subsection (b) must be filed. 1-11 (e) The commission by rule may provide for the extension of 1-12 the time for filing a request for an appeal under Subsection (a) or 1-13 a response under Subsection (b) if good cause is shown by the party 1-14 seeking the extension. 1-15 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-16 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to a 1-17 request for an appeal in a workers' compensation proceeding filed 1-18 on or after the effective date of this Act. A request for an 1-19 appeal filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by 1-20 the law in effect on the date the appeal was filed, and the former 1-21 law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.