Bill Text: TX SB1853 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1853 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to certain workers' compensation reporting requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [SB1853 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1853-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Paxton	S.B. No. 1853
	(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2019; March 18, 2019, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
	April 9, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
	Nays 0; April 9, 2019, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to certain workers' compensation reporting requirements.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 406.145(f), Labor Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(f) If a subsequent hiring agreement is made to which the
	joint agreement does not apply, the hiring contractor and
	independent contractor shall notify in writing:
	(1) [~~the division and~~] the hiring contractor's
	workers' compensation insurance carrier; and
	(2) the division, on the division's request [in
	~~writing~~].
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a notification required to be provided on or after the effective
	date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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