Texas Labor Code Title 5, Chapter 502 - Workers' Compensation Insurance Coverage For Employees Of The Texas A&m University System And Employees Of Institutions Of The Texas A&m University System

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 502.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Division" means the division of workers' compensation of the Texas Department of Insurance. (2) "Employee" means a person employed in the...
• Texas Section 502.002 - Application Of General Workers' Compensation Laws; Limit On Actions And Damages
  (a) The following provisions of Subtitle A apply to and are included in this chapter except to the extent that they are inconsistent with this...

SUBCHAPTER B COVERAGE

• Texas Section 502.003 - Legal Beneficiary Of Deceased Employee
  (a) A reference in this chapter to an injured employee includes the legal beneficiaries of the employee if the injured employee is dead. (b) In...
• Texas Section 502.021 - Workers' Compensation Coverage For Institution Employees
  (a) The system shall pay benefits as provided by this chapter to an employee with a compensable injury. (b) A benefit under this section for...
• Texas Section 502.022 - Authority To Self-insure
  An institution may self-insure. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
• Texas Section 502.023 - Insurance Requirement
  (a) The board of regents of the system may require each employee, as a condition of employment, to acquire protection under a group life and...
• Texas Section 502.024 - Preexisting Disqualifying Condition
  (a) An institution may certify as an employee a person who indicates a preexisting disqualifying physical condition in a medical history obtained under Section 502.064...

SUBCHAPTER C OFFSETS

• Texas Section 502.025 - Coverage For Out-of-state Employees
  (a) An employee who performs services outside this state is entitled to benefits under this chapter even if the person: (1) is hired or not...

SUBCHAPTER D ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 502.041 - Exhaustion Of Annual And Sick Leave
  (a) An employee may elect to use accrued sick leave before receiving income benefits. If an employee elects to use sick leave, the employee is...
• Texas Section 502.061 - Administration And Rules
  (a) The system shall administer this chapter. (b) Process and procedure under this chapter shall be as summary as possible. (c) The system may: (1)...
• Texas Section 502.062 - Percentage Of Payroll Set Aside For Workers' Compensation Expenses; Account; Reports
  (a) An institution may set aside from its available appropriations, other than itemized salary appropriations, an amount not to exceed two percent of the institution's...
• Texas Section 502.063 - Certified Copies Of Division Documents
  (a) The division shall furnish a certified copy of an order, award, decision, or paper on file in the division's office to a person entitled...
• Texas Section 502.064 - Preemployment Physical Required; Examining Physicians; Institution Records
  (a) An institution may obtain and record on a form prescribed by the institution the medical history of a person to be employed by the...
• Texas Section 502.065 - Reports Of Injuries
  (a) In addition to a report of an injury filed with the division under Section 409.005(a), an institution shall file a supplemental report that contains:...
• Texas Section 502.066 - Required Examination Of Injured Employee; Refusal To Submit To Examination
  (a) The division may require an employee who claims to have been injured to submit to an examination by the division or a person acting...
• Texas Section 502.067 - Refusal To Submit To Medical Treatment
  (a) The commissioner of workers' compensation may order or direct the system or the institution to reduce or suspend the compensation of an injured employee...
• Texas Section 502.068 - Postponement Of Hearing
  If an injured employee is receiving benefits under this chapter and the system or the institution is providing hospitalization, medical treatment, or chiropractic care to...
• Texas Section 502.069 - Notice Of Appeal; Notice Of Trial Court Judgment; Offense
  (a) In each case appealed from the division to a county or district court: (1) the clerk of the court shall mail to the division:...
• Texas Section 502.070 - Attorney General As Legal Representative
  The attorney general is the institution's legal representative and may bring and defend all suits and hearings necessary to carry out the purposes of this...

Last modified: September 28, 2016