By: Hancock S.B. No. 877
(In the Senate - Filed February 14, 2017;
February 28, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business & Commerce; April 12, 2017, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 12, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.
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