The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas; Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation · Texas
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Tex. Labor Code § 402.00111
- Issued
- 2021-07-02 July 2, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-02
- End
- Supersedes B-0012-20 and B-0030-20 as of August 2, 2021 (read as 2021-08-02)
- In force
- Aug. 2, 2021 to Aug. 2, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- Texas workers' compensation system participants
- Functions reached
- IN workers' compensation carriers
- WF injured workers (work-search suspension ended Aug. 2, 2021)
- Collection
- State insurance and banking regulators AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING
Operative words
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
Notes
Issued July 2, 2021: the regulator's own dating of the end of the sixteen-month suspension to the third quarter of 2021.