Bill Text: TX HB2143 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a first responder for workers' compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2143-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a first responder for workers' compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2143-Comm_Sub.html
By: Turner of Dallas, et al. | H.B. No. 2143 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2019; | ||
May 13, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 20, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2143 | By: Whitmire |
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relating to the eligibility of a first responder for workers' | ||
compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 504.019, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) Post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by a first | ||
responder is a compensable injury under this subtitle only if it is | ||
based on a diagnosis that: | ||
(1) the disorder is caused by one or more events [ |
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employment; and | ||
(2) the preponderance of the evidence indicates that: | ||
(A) the event or events described by Subdivision | ||
(1) were [ |
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and | ||
(B) if not for the event or events described by | ||
Subdivision (1), the disorder would not have occurred. | ||
(c) For purposes of this subtitle, the date of injury for | ||
post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by a first responder is the | ||
date on which the first responder first knew or should have known | ||
that the disorder may be related to the first responder's | ||
employment. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a claim for workers' compensation benefits based on a | ||
compensable injury that occurs on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. A claim based on a compensable injury that occurs before | ||
that date is governed by the law as it existed on the date the | ||
compensable injury occurred, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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