METHOD OF PROVIDING COVERAGE
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool v. Burns (2006)
Most recently applied in Russell v. METRO. TR. AUTH. OF HARRIS CTY. (May 2011)
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff
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.
A political subdivision shall extend workers' compensation benefits to its employees by:
(1) becoming a self-insurer;
(2) providing insurance under a workers' compensation insurance policy; or
(3) entering into an interlocal agreement with other political subdivisions providing for self-insurance.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.