Amend HB 473, Senate committee printing, by inserting the
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS in the bill and
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 410.032, Labor Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 410.032. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS UNDER INTERLOCUTORY
ORDER. (a) The [As designated by the commissioner, division
staff, other than the] benefit review officer who presides
[presided or will preside] at the benefit review conference[,]
shall consider a request for an interlocutory order and shall give
the opposing party the opportunity to respond before issuing
[issue] an interlocutory order [if determined to be appropriate].
(b) The interlocutory order may address the payment or
suspension of accrued benefits, future benefits, or both accrued
benefits and future benefits.
SECTION ____. Section 410.032, Labor Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a request for an interlocutory order made
in conjunction with a workers' compensation benefit review
conference that is conducted by a benefit review officer on or after
the effective date of this Act. A request made before that date is
governed by the law in effect on the date the request is made, and
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.