** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
State Affairs
TIME & DATE:
9:00 AM, Tuesday, August 17, 2010
PLACE:
Senate Chamber
CHAIR:
Senator Robert Duncan
The committee will meet to take up the following:
Interim Charge 10:  Study the adequacy of workers’ compensation benefits
in the following categories: lifetime income benefits, wage benefits for
the high wage earner, and workers whose wage benefits stop before Social
Security benefits begin. In order to determine the impact of increased
benefits in one or more of these categories, work with the Texas
Department of Insurance to develop a publicly accessible model to predict
the costs related to those enhanced benefits, the effect of those costs on
workers’ compensation premiums, and whether enrollment in the workers’
compensation system will be adversely impacted by increasing the benefits
in one or more of the stated categories.
Interim Charge 11:  Study whether subrogation claims by writers of
workers’ compensation policies should be limited or prohibited. Study the
effect on workers’ compensation premiums, if any, if subrogation claims by
writers of workers’ compensation policies are limited or prohibited.
Consider the feasibility of developing a publicly accessible model to
predict the impact on workers’ compensation premiums, if any, if
subrogation claims by writers of workers’ compensation policies are
limited or prohibited, while protecting confidentiality as required by law
and study whether the impact on workers’ compensation premiums, if any,
would adversely impact enrollment in the workers’ compensation system.
*Public testimony will be limited to 3 minutes per person.
**If submitting written testimony, please provide 30 copies to committee
staff prior to testifying.
 
** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **