2005S0488-1  03/08/05


By:  Gallegos                                                     S.B. No. 1314


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to identifying hazardous employers.                                  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsections (b) and (c), Section 411.041, Labor 
Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The division shall develop a program to identify 
hazardous employers.  The program must:
		(1)  include analysis of injury frequency; and                  
		(2)  take into account the rating plan established 
under Article 5.60(b), Insurance Code.
	(c)  Except as provided by Section 411.0415, an employer 
whose injury frequencies substantially exceed its rating plan 
classification under Article 5.60(b), Insurance Code, or those that 
may reasonably be expected in that employer's business or industry 
is a hazardous employer.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.