Bill Text: TX HB3702 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the notice of rights provided to an injured employee under the Texas workers' compensation system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-18 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB3702 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3702-Introduced.html
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By: Davis of Dallas | H.B. No. 3702 |
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relating to the notice of rights provided to an injured employee | ||
under the Texas workers' compensation system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 404.109, Labor Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
Sec. 404.109. INJURED EMPLOYEE RIGHTS; NOTICE. (a) The | ||
public counsel shall adopt, in the form and manner prescribed by the | ||
public counsel and after consultation with the commissioner of | ||
workers' compensation, a notice of injured employee rights and | ||
responsibilities to be distributed by the division as provided by | ||
commissioner or commissioner of insurance rules. | ||
(b) The notice adopted under Subsection (a) must inform an | ||
injured employee that the employee has the right to choose a | ||
treating doctor, including a doctor of medicine, osteopathic | ||
medicine, optometry, dentistry, podiatry, or chiropractic who is | ||
licensed and authorized to practice. | ||
(c) A right or responsibility included in the notice adopted | ||
under Subsection (a) [ |
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requirements of this subtitle and division rules. | ||
(d) This section may not be construed as establishing an | ||
entitlement to benefits to which the claimant is not otherwise | ||
entitled under this subtitle. | ||
SECTION 2. The public counsel of the office of injured | ||
employee counsel shall adopt the notice required under Section | ||
404.109, Labor Code, as amended by this Act, not later than December | ||
1, 2017. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |