TO: | Honorable Joe Deshotel, Chair, House Committee on Business & Industry |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB3960 by McReynolds (Relating to workers' compensation insurance coverage for certain travel by emergency service organization employees and volunteer members.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend the Labor Code regarding workers' compensation for employees and volunteers of an emergency service organization to include coverage of transportation to or from an emergency incident.
This cost analysis assumes that the bill would provide coverage for employees and volunteers of an emergency service organization under a workers’ compensation insurance policy or plan issued to the emergency service organization and that any injuries of employees doing volunteer emergency work would not be covered by the employees' full-time employer. Based on the analysis by the State Office of Risk Management, the Texas Department of Insurance, the Texas A&M University System Administration, and the University of Texas System Administration, it is assumed that any costs associated with the implementation of this bill could be absorbed within existing agency resources.
Source Agencies: | 454 Department of Insurance, 479 State Office of Risk Management, 710 Texas A&M University System Administrative and General Offices, 720 The University of Texas System Administration
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LBB Staff: | JOB, JRO, CH, MW
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