Bill Text: TX HB2143 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a first responder for workers' compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2143-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2143 |
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relating to the eligibility of a first responder for workers' | ||
compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 504.019, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) Post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by a first | ||
responder is a compensable injury under this subtitle only if it is | ||
based on a diagnosis that: | ||
(1) the disorder is caused by one or more events [ |
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employment; and | ||
(2) the preponderance of the evidence indicates that | ||
the event or events were [ |
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(c) For purposes of this subtitle, the date of injury for | ||
post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by a first responder is the | ||
date on which the first responder first knew or should have known | ||
that the disorder may be related to the first responder's | ||
employment. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a claim for workers' compensation benefits based on a | ||
compensable injury that occurs on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. A claim based on a compensable injury that occurs before | ||
that date is governed by the law as it existed on the date the | ||
compensable injury occurred, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2143 was passed by the House on May | ||
10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 2143 on May 24, 2019, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 2143 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 144, | ||
Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2143 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
2143 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |