By Goolsby                                            H.B. No. 3671
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                                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.