By Fraser S.B. No. 1777 76R8697 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to ancillary medical benefits under workers' compensation. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 408. Subchapter B, Labor Code is amended 1-5 by adding Section 408.029 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 408.029. ANCILLARY SERVICES. (a) an employee shall 1-7 receive all medical services ancillary to the medical treatment 1-8 provided pursuant to this act at the direction of the employer or 1-9 the employers' designee. 1-10 (b) services ancillary to the medical treatment provided 1-11 pursuant to this act shall include the following: 1-12 all physical and occupational therapy; 1-13 work hardening and work conditioning; 1-14 pain management; 1-15 biofeedback; 1-16 psychological referrals; 1-17 functional capacities evaluations; 1-18 diagnostics in excess of the fee permitted pursuant to 1-19 medical fee guidelines established by the commission; 1-20 physician referrals; 1-21 home health services; 1-22 durable medical equipment; 1-23 and such other services as the commission may 1-24 recognize in rules promulgated consistent with 2-1 this act. 2-2 SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 2-3 applies to a compensable injury that occurs on or after that 2-4 effective date. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.