By: Hancock S.B. No. 934
(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2019; March 1, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
March 21, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; March 21, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to judicial review of certain workers' compensation
disputes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 410.252(a) and (d), Labor Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) A party may seek judicial review by filing suit not
later than the 60th [45th] day after the date on which the division
mailed the party the decision of the appeals panel. For purposes of
this section, the mailing date is considered to be the fifth day
after the date the decision of the appeals panel was filed with the
division.
(d) If a suit is initially filed within the 60-day [45-day]
period in Subsection (a), and is transferred under Subsection (c),
the suit is considered to be timely filed in the court to which it is
transferred.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a suit for judicial review filed on or after the effective date
of this Act. A suit for judicial review filed before the effective
date of this Act is covered by the law as it existed on the date the
suit was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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