Bill Text: TX SB877 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 877 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to liability of certain political subdivisions in certain workers' compensation actions.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB877 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB877-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 877




	AN ACT
	relating to liability of certain political subdivisions in certain
	workers' compensation actions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 504.053(e), Labor Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(e) Nothing in this chapter waives sovereign immunity or
	creates a new cause of action, except that a political subdivision
	that self-insures either individually or collectively is liable for
	attorney's fees as provided by Section 417.003.
	SECTION 2. Section 504.053, Labor Code, as amended by this
	Act, applies only to a third-party action under Chapter 417, Labor
	Code, commenced on or after the effective date of this Act. A
	third-party action under Chapter 417, Labor Code, commenced before
	the effective date of this Act is governed by the law applicable to
	the action immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
	that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 877 passed the Senate on
	April 26, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 877 passed the House on
	May 17, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 2, two
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor