By: Estes S.B. No. 675
(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2003; February 27, 2003,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 24, 2003, rereferred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
May 12, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
Nays 2; May 12, 2003, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to status as an employer under a workers' compensation
insurance policy or certificate of authority to self-insure.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 408.001, Labor Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Recovery of workers' compensation benefits is the
exclusive remedy of an employee covered by workers' compensation
insurance coverage or a legal beneficiary for the death of, or a
work-related injury sustained by, the employee against:
(1) the employer;
(2) a parent corporation of the employer, a subsidiary
corporation of the employer, or any other subsidiary of the parent
corporation of the employer, that:
(A) is a named insured on the employer's policy
of workers' compensation insurance; or
(B) is covered by a certificate of authority to
self-insure issued by the commission under Chapter 407; or
(3) an agent or employee of a person described by
Subdivision (1) or (2) [the employer for the death of or a
work-related injury sustained by the employee].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and
applies only to a claim for workers' compensation benefits based on
a compensable injury that occurs on or after that date. A claim
based on a compensable injury that occurs before that date is
governed by the law in effect on the date that the compensable
injury occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
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