This subtitle may be cited as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.
Tex. Lab. Code § 401.001
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Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401–419 (623 sections).
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. Garcia (1995)
Most recently applied in Fernandez v. Motorola Solutions, Inc. (February 2024)
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.