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Code: 

Labor Code

Title: 

Title 5. Workers’ Compensation

Section: 

410.203

Name: 

Powers And Duties Of Appeals Panel; Priority Of Hearing On Remand

Eff. Date: 

September 1, 2017
§410.203
Powers And Duties Of Appeals Panel; Priority Of Hearing On Remand

(a) The appeals panel shall consider:

(1) the record developed at the contested case hearing; and

(2) the written request for appeal and response filed with the appeals panel.

(b) The appeals panel may:

(1) reverse the decision of the administrative law judge and render a new decision;

(2) reverse the decision of the administrative law judge and remand the case to the administrative law judge for further consideration and development of evidence; or

(3) affirm the decision of the administrative law judge in a case described by Section 410.204(a-1).

(c) The appeals panel may not remand a case under Subsection (b)(2) more than once.

(d) A hearing on remand shall be accelerated and the commissioner shall adopt rules to give priority to the hearing over other proceedings.

(e) The appeals panel shall issue and maintain a precedent manual. The precedent manual shall be composed of precedent-establishing decisions and may include other information as identified by the appeals panel.

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 265, § 3.192, eff. Sept. 1, 2005; Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., ch. 1162 (H.B. 2605), § 16, eff. Sept. 1, 2011; Acts 2017, 85th Leg., ch. 839 (H.B. 2111), § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 2017.