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.