Bill Text: TX HB2143 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2143 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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-Introduced.html



	By: Turner of Dallas	H.B. No. 2143



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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(b), Labor Code, is amended 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 an event or exposure to
	multiple events occurring in the course and scope of the first
	responder's employment; and
	(2) the preponderance of the evidence indicates that
	the event or exposure to multiple events was a substantial
	contributing factor of the disorder.
	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.