Monitoring the SessionSB 423
Died in committee
Initial review · graded Oct 20, 2026 · Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person · How we grade
relating to conducting certain contested case hearings under the Texas workers' compensation system by remote communication.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
Required when both sides agree, with an English and Spanish tutorial.
The bill requires the state workers' compensation division to hold a contested case hearing by phone or video when both sides agree to it. It touches injured workers, employers and insurance carriers in workers' comp disputes, and the commissioner who must write rules, including posting video system requirements and an English and Spanish tutorial on filing motions and evidence electronically. On the ground, parties who agree can skip traveling to a hearing site, and the 75-mile location limit no longer controls those remote hearings.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R HB 4214 by Rep. Isaac (Did not pass) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.BACK FROM THE DEAD. Same text as a bill filed before that died: 88R HB 4214 by Rep. Isaac (Did not pass). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Nov 21, 2024 and referred to the Senate Business & Commerce committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-SB423 · 2024-11-21
+ 3 coauthors
relating to conducting certain contested case hearings under the Texas workers' compensation system by remote communication.
Required when both sides agree, with an English and Spanish tutorial.
The bill requires the state workers' compensation division to hold a contested case hearing by phone or video when both sides agree to it. It touches injured workers, employers and insurance carriers in workers' comp disputes, and the commissioner who must write rules, including posting video system requirements and an English and Spanish tutorial on filing motions and evidence electronically. On the ground, parties who agree can skip traveling to a hearing site, and the 75-mile location limit no longer controls those remote hearings.
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Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 2 times: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.
by Rep. Isaac, different lead author · Did not pass · same text
Introduced textLast action, May 8, 2023: Received from the House
Relating to conducting certain contested case hearings under the Texas workers' compensation system by remote communication.
Caption, 88R bill history
Texas Senate · Filed Nov 21, 2024
02/03/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 6:51 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
Senate committee · Business & Commerce · Final status: Died in committee
Labor--Workers' Compensation
VIDEOCONFERENCING
WORKERS' COMPENSATION, COMMISSIONER OF (V91AZ)
The text as introduced · 385 words
89R4374 RDS-F By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 423 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to conducting certain contested case hearings under the Texas workers' compensation system by remote communication. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 410.005(a), Labor Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) Subject to Section 410.0055, unless [ Unless ] the division determines that good cause exists for the selection of a different location, a contested case hearing may not be conducted at a site more than 75 miles from the claimant's residence at the time of the injury. SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 410, Labor Code, is amended by adding Section 410.0055 to read as follows: Sec. 410.0055. CONDUCTING CERTAIN CONTESTED CASE HEARINGS BY REMOTE COMMUNICATION. (a) On mutual agreement of the parties, the division shall conduct a contested case hearing telephonically or by videoconference. (b) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section, including rules providing for: (1) the updating of any notice issued for a contested case hearing conducted in a manner described by this section; and (2) the publication of: (A) system requirements for a contested case hearing conducted by videoconference; and (B) a tutorial video and written instruction guide that include information in English and Spanish regarding how to electronically submit motions and evidence before a contested case hearing conducted in a manner described by this section. SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, the commissioner of workers' compensation shall adopt rules to implement Section 410.0055, Labor Code, as added by this Act. SECTION 4. Section 410.0055, Labor Code, as added by this Act, applies to a contested case hearing requested on or after the effective date of this Act. A contested case hearing requested before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the contested case hearing was requested, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
