Bill Text: TX HB2587 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study regarding employers who do not participate in and injured employees who are not covered under the workers' compensation system.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-04 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [HB2587 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2587-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Oliveira | H.B. No. 2587 |
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relating to a study regarding employers who do not participate in | ||
and injured employees who are not covered under the workers' | ||
compensation system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) The workers' compensation research and | ||
evaluation group of the division of workers' compensation of the | ||
Texas Department of Insurance shall conduct a study to: | ||
(1) identify in which industries employers tend to | ||
elect to not participate in the workers' compensation system; | ||
(2) determine the reasons the employers involved in | ||
the industries identified in Subdivision (1) of this subsection | ||
elect to not participate in the workers' compensation system; and | ||
(3) determine the extent to which injured employees | ||
whose employers elect to not participate in the workers' | ||
compensation system rely on public benefits to: | ||
(A) receive treatment and rehabilitation for | ||
their injuries; and | ||
(B) replace lost income while unable to return to | ||
work due to their injuries. | ||
(b) The division may require an employer that elects to not | ||
participate in the workers' compensation system to submit | ||
information to the division as necessary to complete the study | ||
under Subsection (a) of this section. | ||
(c) The commissioner of workers' compensation shall submit | ||
a report containing the findings of the study required under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section to the governor, lieutenant | ||
governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and appropriate | ||
standing committees of the legislature not later than September 1, | ||
2016. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act expires December 31, 2016. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. | 1 | |
Amend House Bill No. 2587, on page 1, line 22, after "system" and | ||
before "to" by inserting "or does not offer an alternative | ||
occupational benefit plan". | ||
Simmons | ||
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. | 2 | |
Amend House Bill No. 2587 on Page 2, line 1, by striking subsection | ||
(c) and substituting the following: | ||
(c) On request by the workers' compensation research and | ||
evaluation group, the Texas Workforce Commission, Health and Human | ||
Services Commission, the Department of State Health Services, and | ||
the Texas Health Care Information Council shall provide information | ||
to the group or otherwise assist the group in preparing the report. | ||
(d) The commissioner of workers' compensation shall submit | ||
a report containing the findings of the study required under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section to the governor, lieutenant | ||
governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and appropriate | ||
standing committees of the legislature not later than December 1, | ||
2016. | ||
Simmons |