{"id":"AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-017","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Texas; Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers\u0027 Compensation","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-INSURANCE-BANKING","eco":"","issuer":"Cassie Brown, Commissioner of Workers\u0027 Compensation","authority":"Governor\u0027s suspension of statutes and rules under Gov\u0027t Code § 418.016","instrument":"Commissioner\u0027s Bulletin # B-0012-20","title":"Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Labor Code and DWC Rules Related to Workers\u0027 Compensation","dateIssued":"2020-03-27","effective":"2020-03-27","end":"2021-08-02 (work-search standards resumed for qualifying periods on or after August 2, 2021, Bulletin B-0018-21, Ex. 021)","startDate":"2020-03-27","endDate":"2021-08-02","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["all Texas workers\u0027 compensation system participants"],"clause":"Governor Abbott approved DWC\u0027s request to suspend the following requirements: work search compliance standards for supplemental income benefits under Labor Code Section 408.1415(a) and 28 Texas Administrative Code Section 130.102(d); testing, training, and application requirements for designated doctor and maximum medical improvement and impairment rating recertification under 28 TAC Sections 127.110(b)(1) and (3), 127.110(d), and 180.23; and required medical exams under 28 TAC Section 126.6(a).","enforcement":"Tex. Labor Code ch. 415","functions":["IN workers\u0027 compensation carriers (supplemental income benefits administration)","WF injured workers relieved of work-search requirements because employers were not hiring","HR designated-doctor recertification"],"notes":"In force on July 1, 2021 and through August 1, 2021: the regulator\u0027s finding that work-search standards could not be met for sixteen months.","sourceUrl":"https://www.tdi.texas.gov/bulletins/2020/B-0012-20.html","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200408234505/https://www.tdi.texas.gov/bulletins/2020/B-0012-20.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":222490,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING","url":"/library/AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-017","citation":"Cassie Brown, Commissioner of Workers\u0027 Compensation, Commissioner\u0027s Bulletin # B-0012-20 (Mar. 27, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-017)","stateName":"Texas","related":["AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-016"]}