Tex. Lab. Code § 503.067 · Subchapter D. ADMINISTRATION
REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioner may order or direct the system or the institution to reduce or suspend the compensation of an injured employee who:
(1) persists in insanitary or injurious practices that tend to imperil or retard the employee's recovery; or
(2) refuses to submit to medical, surgical, or other remedial treatment recognized by the state that is reasonably essential to promote the employee's recovery.
(b) Compensation may not be reduced or suspended under this section without reasonable notice to the employee and an opportunity to be heard.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 265 (H.B. 7), Sec. 3.314, eff. September 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.503.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 dc6868e4dcb1f36299227057bf4bd44f4ac99db03982f01c6a059677dc7ef853
- Composed by
- 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
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