Bill Text: TX HB2598 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2598 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a first responder for workers' compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB2598 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB2598-Introduced.html

	87R6787 KKR-D

	By: Patterson	H.B. No. 2598



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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(c), Labor Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(c) For purposes of this subtitle, the date of injury for
	post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by a first responder is the
	30th day after the date on which the first responder is first
	diagnosed with [~~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 Section 504.019(c),
	Labor Code, as amended 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, 2021.