Bill Text: TX HB2119 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to workers' compensation death benefit eligibility for certain spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2119 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2119-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to workers' compensation death benefit eligibility for certain spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2119 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2119-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kacal, et al. (Senate Sponsor - West) | H.B. No. 2119 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017; | ||
May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 21, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 21, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to workers' compensation death benefit eligibility for | ||
certain spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 408.183(b-1), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), an eligible spouse | ||
who remarried is eligible for death benefits for life if the | ||
employee was a first responder, as defined by Section 504.055, who | ||
suffered death in the course and scope of employment or while | ||
providing services as a volunteer. This subsection applies | ||
regardless of the date on which the death of the first responder | ||
occurred. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 2, Chapter 1018 (H.B. 1094), Acts of the | ||
84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
408.183, Labor Code, applies only to an eligible spouse who | ||
remarries on or after the effective date of this Act. An eligible | ||
spouse who remarried before that date is governed by the law as it | ||
existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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