Bill Text: TX HB4038 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for lifetime income benefits under the workers' compensation system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB4038 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4038-Introduced.html
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By: Turner of Tarrant | H.B. No. 4038 |
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relating to eligibility for lifetime income benefits under the | ||
workers' compensation system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 408.161(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Lifetime income benefits are paid until the death of the | ||
employee for: | ||
(1) total and permanent loss of sight in both eyes; | ||
(2) loss of both feet at or above the ankle; | ||
(3) loss of both hands at or above the wrist; | ||
(4) loss of one foot at or above the ankle and the loss | ||
of one hand at or above the wrist; | ||
(5) an injury to the spine that results in permanent | ||
and complete paralysis of both arms, both legs, or one arm and one | ||
leg; | ||
(6) a physically traumatic injury to the brain | ||
resulting in the person having an incurable mental illness or | ||
intellectual disability [ |
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(7) third degree burns that cover at least 40 percent | ||
of the body and require grafting, or third degree burns covering the | ||
majority of either both hands or one hand and the face; or | ||
(8) adhesive arachnoiditis. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a claim for lifetime income 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, 2021. |