General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 491
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WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
at once, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in
each House be suspended, and said Rule is hereby suspended; and that
this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and
it is so enacted.
Passed the Senate, April 18, 1963: Yeas 31, Nays 0; passed the House,
May 8, 1963, by a non-record vote.
Approved May 18, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION-TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL
COLLEGE EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 178
S. B. No. 247
An Act amending Section 7 of Chapter 252, Acts of the 55th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1957, relating to Workmen's Compensation Law applicable to em-
ployees of Texas Technological College, so as to adopt certain amendments
and Sections of the General Law contained in Articles 8306, 8307 and 8309,
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, and Chapter 248, Acts
of the 42nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1931 (compiled as Article 8306a of
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended; providing for incorporation of
future amendments; providing for severability; and declaring an emer-
gency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Section 7 of Chapter 252, Acts of the 55th Legislature,
Regular Session, 1957,14 is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 7. Unless otherwise provided herein, Sections 1, 6, 7, 7b, 7c, 7e,
8, 8a, 8b, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 12e, 12f, 12i, 13, 15, 15a, 16,
17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 of Article 8306, Revised Civil Statutes
of Texas, 1925, as amended or as they may hereafter be amended; Chapter
248, Acts of the 42nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1931 (compiled as
Article 8306a of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended or as it may
hereafter be amended; Sections 4a, 6a, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Article 8307,
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended or as they may here-
after be amended; and Sections 4 and 5 of Article 8309, Revised Civil
Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended or as they may hereafter be amended,
are adopted and shall govern where applicable. However, when in the
above adopted Sections of Articles 8306, 8307 and 8309 of the Revised
Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, the words 'association,' 'subscriber,' 'employ-
er' or their equivalent appear, they shall mean 'the institution.' "
Sec. 2. If any Section, sentence, clause or part of this Act is for any
reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the re-
maining portions of this Act. The Legislature hereby declares that it
would have passed this Act and each Section, sentence, clause or part
thereof despite the fact that one or more Sections, sentences, clauses or
parts thereof be declared unconstitutional.
Sec. 3. The fact, that several Sections of the Workmen's Compensa-
tion Law of this state which have been adopted as a part of the Workmen's
14. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 8309f, 9 7.
491Ch. 178
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