Bill Text: TX HB2539 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the compensability of injuries sustained at a location other than an employer's worksite, including at an employee's home, under the workers' compensation system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB2539 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2539-Introduced.html
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By: Noble | H.B. No. 2539 |
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relating to the compensability of injuries sustained at a location | ||
other than an employer's worksite, including at an employee's home, | ||
under the workers' compensation system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 401, Labor Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 401.027 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 401.027. COMPENSABILITY OF INJURIES SUSTAINED AT | ||
CERTAIN LOCATIONS OTHER THAN EMPLOYER'S WORKSITE. For purposes of | ||
this subtitle, an injury is not compensable if the injury arises | ||
while the employee performs job duties for an employer at: | ||
(1) the employee's home; or | ||
(2) a location: | ||
(A) that is not owned, operated, or controlled by | ||
the employer; or | ||
(B) at which the employee is not specifically | ||
required to be to perform the employee's job duties. | ||
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 | ||
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect 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, 2023. |