Bill Text: TX HB3635 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to vehicle modification services provided under the vocational rehabilitation program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-17 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB3635 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB3635-Comm_Sub.html

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87R22127 KKR-D
By: Frullo H.B. No. 3635
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3635:
By: Button C.S.H.B. No. 3635

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to vehicle modification services provided under the
vocational rehabilitation program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 352, Labor Code, is
amended by adding Section 352.109 to read as follows:
Sec. 352.109. APPORTIONED VEHICLE MODIFICATION SERVICES.
(a) If, after a vehicle modification review is conducted, it is
determined that a portion of an applicant's requested vehicle
modifications is not safe, the commission shall:
(1) inform the applicant about the unsafe
modification; and
(2) on the applicant's request, make a determination
regarding whether the unsafe modification violates state or federal
law or regulations and, if the commission determines that the
unsafe modification does not violate applicable state or federal
law or regulations:
(A) provide those modifications that were
determined safe; and
(B) allow the applicant to pay out-of-pocket for
those modifications that were determined unsafe.
(b) The commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement
this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.