Tex. Lab. Code § 406.075 · Subchapter D. EXTRATERRITORIAL COVERAGE
EFFECT OF COMPENSATION PAID IN OTHER JURISDICTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An injured employee who elects to pursue the employee's remedy under the workers' compensation laws of another jurisdiction and who recovers benefits under those laws may not recover under this subtitle.
(b) The amount of benefits accepted under the laws of the other jurisdiction without an election under Subsection (a) shall be credited against the benefits that the employee would have received had the claim been made under this subtitle.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.406.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 2 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Lab. Code § 406.075. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Labor Code
- Tex. Lab. Code § 501.002APPLICATION OF GENERAL WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAWS; LIMIT ON ACTIONS AND DAMAGES.Printed as Sections 406.071(a), 406.073, and 406.075
- Tex. Lab. Code § 505.002APPLICATION OF GENERAL WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAWS; LIMIT ON ACTIONS AND DAMAGES.Printed as Sections 406.071-406.073, and 406.075
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