{"id":"AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-021","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":"Tex. Labor Code § 402.00111","instrument":"Commissioner\u0027s Bulletin # B-0018-21","title":"Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Resuming Texas Labor Code provisions and DWC rules related to work search compliance standards for supplemental income benefits and certain designated doctor examinations and required medical examinations","dateIssued":"2021-07-02","effective":"2021-08-02","end":"Supersedes B-0012-20 and B-0030-20 as of August 2, 2021","startDate":"2021-08-02","endDate":"2021-08-02","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["Texas workers\u0027 compensation system participants"],"clause":"DWC has determined that suspending work search requirements is no longer necessary as a response to COVID-19. For each full week of the qualifying period on or after Monday, August 2, 2021, injured employees must meet at least one of the work search requirements to be able to get SIBs... On Monday, August 2, 2021, DWC will resume processing requests for DD examinations and RMEs for all issues, including return to work or disability as a direct result of the compensable injury.","enforcement":"Tex. Labor Code ch. 415","functions":["IN workers\u0027 compensation carriers","WF injured workers (work-search suspension ended Aug. 2, 2021)"],"notes":"Issued July 2, 2021: the regulator\u0027s own dating of the end of the sixteen-month suspension to the third quarter of 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.tdi.texas.gov/bulletins/2021/B-0018-21.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":207830,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING","url":"/library/AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-021","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-021","citation":"Cassie Brown, Commissioner of Workers\u0027 Compensation, Commissioner\u0027s Bulletin # B-0018-21 (July 2, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-021)","stateName":"Texas","related":[]}