Texas Labor Code Title 5, Chapter 412 - State Office Of Risk Management

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER B OFFICE

• Texas Section 412.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the risk management board. (2) "Director" means the executive director of the office. (3) "Office" means the State Office...
• Texas Section 412.011 - Powers And Duties Of Office
  (a) The State Office of Risk Management shall administer insurance services obtained by state agencies, including the government employees workers' compensation insurance program and the...
• Texas Section 412.0111 - Affiliation With Office Of Attorney General
  The office is administratively attached to the office of the attorney general and the office of the attorney general shall provide the facilities for the...
• Texas Section 412.012 - Funding
  The office shall be administered through money appropriated by the legislature and through the allocation program for the financing of state workers' compensation benefits and...
• Texas Section 412.012 - Funding
  The office shall be administered through money appropriated by the legislature and through: (1) interagency contracts for purchase of insurance coverage and the operation of...
• Texas Section 412.0121 - Interagency Contracts
  (a) Each state agency shall enter into an interagency contract with the office under Chapter 771, Government Code, to pay the costs incurred by the...
• Texas Section 412.0121 - Interagency Contracts
  (a) Each state agency shall enter into an interagency contract with the office under Chapter 771, Government Code, to pay the costs incurred by the...
• Texas Section 412.0122 - State Self-insuring For Workers' Compensation
  The state is self-insuring with respect to an employee's compensable injury. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1098, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997....
• Texas Section 412.0122 - State Self-insuring For Workers' Compensation
  (a) The state is self-insuring with respect to an employee's compensable injury. (b) The legislature shall appropriate the amount designated by the appropriation structure for...
• Texas Section 412.0123 - Allocation Of Workers' Compensation And Risk Management Costs; Risk Reward Program
  Sec. 412.0123. ALLOCATION OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND RISK MANAGEMENT COSTS; RISK REWARD PROGRAM. Text of subsec. (a) as added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 412.0123 - Deposit Of Workers' Compensation Subrogation Recoveries
  (a) All money recovered by the director from a third party through subrogation shall be deposited into the state workers' compensation account in general revenue....
• Texas Section 412.0124 - Deposit Of Workers' Compensation Subrogation Recoveries
  All money recovered by the director from a third party through subrogation shall be deposited into the state workers' compensation account in general revenue. Added...
• Texas Section 412.0125 - Return-to-work Coordination Services; Case Management
  (a) The office shall provide each state agency with return-to-work coordination services as necessary to facilitate an injured employee's return to employment. The office shall...
• Texas Section 412.0126 - Analysis
  (a) The board shall adopt rules as necessary to collect data on lost time and return-to-work outcomes of each state agency to allow full evaluations...
• Texas Section 412.0127 - Payment By Electronic Funds Transfer
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 403.016, Government Code, and except as provided by Subsection (b), the office shall pay an employee entitled to an indemnity benefit payment...

SUBCHAPTER C BOARD

• Texas Section 412.0128 - Confidentiality Of Information
  (a) Information in or derived from a workers' compensation claim file regarding an employee, and information in or derived from a risk management review related...
• Texas Section 412.021 - Risk Management Board
  (a) The office is governed by the risk management board. Members of the board must have demonstrated experience in the fields of: (1) insurance and...
• Texas Section 412.022 - Training Program For Board Members
  (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the board may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as...
• Texas Section 412.023 - Effect Of Lobbying Activity
  (a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined statewide association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to...
• Texas Section 412.024 - Grounds For Removal From Board
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the board if a member: (1) does not have at the time of taking office the qualifications...

SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD

• Texas Section 412.027 - Use Of Technology
  The board shall implement a policy requiring the office to use appropriate technological solutions to improve the office's ability to perform its functions. The policy...
• Texas Section 412.031 - Rulemaking Authority
  The board shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter and Chapter 501, including rules relating to reporting requirements for a state agency. Added...
• Texas Section 412.032 - Board's Report To Legislature
  (a) Based on the recommendations of the director, the board shall report to each legislature relating to: (1) methods to reduce the exposure of state...
• Texas Section 412.033 - Hiring Director
  The board shall hire a qualified person to serve as director of the office. The director serves at the pleasure of the board. Added by...
• Texas Section 412.034 - Public Hearing
  The board shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the board and to speak on any...

SUBCHAPTER E DIRECTOR

• Texas Section 412.035 - Dispute Resolution
  (a) The board shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008, Government Code, for the...
• Texas Section 412.041 - Director Duties
  (a) The director serves as the state risk manager. (b) The director shall supervise the development and administration of systems to: (1) identify the property...

SUBCHAPTER F STATE AGENCIES

• Texas Section 412.042 - Reports To The Legislature
  (a) The director shall report to the legislature at the beginning of each regular session regarding the services provided by the office to a state...
• Texas Section 412.051 - Duties Of State Agencies; Insurance Notification Requirements
  (a) Each state agency shall actively manage the risks of that agency by: (1) developing, implementing, and maintaining programs designed to assist employees who sustain...
• Texas Section 412.052 - Exemption Of Certain State Agencies
  This chapter does not apply to a state agency that had medical malpractice insurance coverage, workers' compensation insurance coverage, or other self-insurance coverage with associated...
• Texas Section 412.053 - Annual Report By State Agency
  (a) Each state agency shall report to the director for each fiscal year: (1) the location, timing, frequency, severity, and aggregate amounts of losses by...
• Texas Section 412.054 - Continuity Of Operations Plan
  (a) Each state agency shall work with the office to develop an agency-level continuity of operations plan that outlines procedures to keep the agency operational...

Last modified: September 28, 2016