Code: 

Labor Code

Title: 

Title 5. Workers’ Compensation

Section: 

410.0055

Name: 

Conducting Certain Contested Case hearings by Remote Communication

Eff. Date: 

June 20, 2025

No Rule Reference

§410.0055
Conducting Certain Contested Case hearings by Remote Communication

(a) Notwithstanding Section 410.005(a), the division may conduct a contested case hearing by videoconference:

(1) on a determination by the division that good cause exists for conducting the hearing in that manner; or

(2) on the mutual agreement of the parties.

(b) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., ch. 736 (H.B. 2488), § 1, eff. June 20, 2025.