By Goolsby H.B. No. 3671 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 a workers' compensation benefit review conference. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 410.025, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) Upon the mutual agreement of all parties, the benefit 1-7 review conference may be conducted telephonically. The commission 1-8 by rule shall establish procedures for conducting a benefit review 1-9 conference telephonically. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.