Tex. Lab. Code § 401.022 · Subchapter C. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This subtitle may not be applied to discriminate because of race, sex, national origin, or religion.
(b) This section does not prohibit consideration of an anatomical difference in application of the impairment guidelines under Chapter 408 in rating an injury or a disease such as, but not limited to, breast cancer or an inguinal hernia. If an impairment rating assigns different values to the same injury for males and females, the higher value shall be applied.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.401.htm
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