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By:  McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Carona)                         H.B. No. 2323
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 19, 2003; 
May 20, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on State 
Affairs; May 23, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the transfer of certain suits regarding workers' 
compensation claims.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 410.252, Labor Code, is amended by 
adding  Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
	(c)  If a suit under this section is filed in a county other 
than the county described by Subsection (b), the court, on 
determining that it does not have jurisdiction to render judgment 
on the merits of the suit, shall transfer the case to a proper court 
in a county described by Subsection (b).  Notice of the transfer of 
a suit shall be given to the parties.  A suit transferred under this 
subsection shall be considered for all purposes the same as if 
originally filed in the court to which it is transferred.
	(d)  If a suit is initially filed within the 40-day period in 
Subsection (a), and is transferred under Subsection (c), the suit 
is considered to be timely filed in the court to which it is 
transferred.
	SECTION 2.  Section 410.252, Labor Code, as amended by this 
Act, applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after the 
effective date of this Act.  A cause of action that accrues before 
that date is governed by the law as it existed immediately before 
the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect 
for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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