Amend SB 1169, house committee printing, by inserting the 
following new SECTIONS in the bill, appropriately numbered, and 
renumbering the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ___.1.  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:
		(1)  consider a written or verbal request for an 
interlocutory order for the payment of benefits; and
		(2)  [shall issue an interlocutory order] if the 
benefit review officer determines that issuance of an interlocutory 
order is [determined to be] appropriate, issue the interlocutory 
order not later than the third day after the date of receipt of the 
request under Subdivision (1).
	(b)  The interlocutory order may address 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.