A Tale of Two Bills: Legislature Meets DWC Halfway on Recommendations

By Steve Nichols, News Contributor The Texas Legislature sent the governor a bill before adjourning the 2023 session to implement a Division of Workers’ Compensation recommendation to exempt designated doctor exams from state sales taxes. Another bill that would have implemented a DWC recommendation to exempt from public records requests working papers and electronic communications of workers’ compensation administrative law judges and Appeals Panel judges was not passed out of committee and died. Other comp bills that failed to make it to the governor’s desk before the se...