83R22082 JSC-D
By: Zedler H.B. No. 2629
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2629:
By: Rodriguez of Travis C.S.H.B. No. 2629
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the determination of the impairment rating of an
employee with a lumbar injury under the workers' compensation
system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 408.124, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding Subsections (b) and (c), for
determining the existence and degree of an employee's impairment
related to a lumbar injury, the division shall use the range of
motion model in "Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment,"
Fourth Edition, dated June 1993, published by the American Medical
Association.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an assignment of an impairment rating that is made on or after
the effective date of this Act. An assignment that is made before
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
the date the assignment was made, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.