Texas Labor Code Title 5, Chapter 503 - Workers' Compensation Insurance Coverage For Employees Of The University Of Texas System And Employees Of Institutions Of The University Of Texas System

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 503.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of workers' compensation. (1-a) "Division" means the division of workers' compensation of the Texas Department of Insurance....
• Texas Section 503.002 - 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 503.003 - 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 503.021 - Workers' Compensation Coverage For System And 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 503.022 - Authority To Self-insure
  An institution may self-insure as part of a system insurance plan. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by:...
• Texas Section 503.023 - Insurance Requirement
  The board of regents of the system may require each person employed by the system or an institution other than by appointment or express contract...
• Texas Section 503.024 - Waiver Of Rights
  An agreement by an employee to waive the employee's rights under this chapter is valid if made in writing by the employee before becoming an...

SUBCHAPTER C OFFSETS

• Texas Section 503.025 - 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 503.041 - 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 503.061 - 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 503.062 - 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 503.063 - 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 503.064 - Examining Physicians
  (a) The institution shall designate a convenient number of licensed practicing physicians to perform physical examinations of individuals employed or to be employed by the...
• Texas Section 503.065 - 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 503.066 - 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 503.067 - Refusal To Submit To Medical Treatment
  (a) The commissioner may order or direct the system or the institution to reduce or suspend the compensation of an injured employee who: (1) persists...
• Texas Section 503.068 - Postponement Of Hearing
  If an injured employee is receiving benefits under this chapter and the system or the institution is providing hospitalization or medical treatment to the employee,...
• Texas Section 503.069 - 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 503.070 - Venue For Judicial Review
  (a) A party who does not consent to abide by the final decision of the commissioner shall file notice with the division as required by...
• Texas Section 503.071 - 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