Bill Text: TX HB2503 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to workers' compensation death benefit eligibility for certain spouses of certain employees killed in the line of duty.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2503 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2503-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2503 | ||
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| relating to workers' compensation death benefit eligibility for | ||
| certain spouses of certain employees 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, or an | ||
| individual described by Section 615.003(1), Government Code, or | ||
| Section 501.001(5)(F), 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 or other individual occurred. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 408.183(b-1), 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2503 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2503 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
