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Amend CSSB 5 as follows:                                                     
	Amend Article 1, of the committee report by inserting the 
following section appropriately numbered.  Section 1 __. Subchapter 
A, Chapter 402 of the Labor Code is amended by adding Section 
402.0125 to read as follows:

PROHIBITION ON EMPLOYMENT OR REPRESENTATION.
	(a)  A commissioner, or an employee of the Texas Department 
of Workers' Compensation involved in hearing department cases may 
not:
		(1)  be employed by an insurance carrier that was in the 
scope of the commissioner's or employee's official responsibility 
while the commissioner or employee was associated with the 
department; or
		(2)  represent a person before the department or a 
court in a matter:       
			(A)  in which the commissioner or employee was 
personally involved while associated with the department; or
			(B)  that was within the commissioner's or 
employee's official responsibility while the commissioner or 
employee was associated with the department.
	(b)  The prohibition of Subsection (a)(1) applies until the:                   
		(1)  second anniversary of the date the commissioner 
ceases to serve as a commissioner; and
		(2)  first anniversary of the date the employee's 
employment with the department ceases.
	(c)  The prohibition of Subsection (a)(2) applies while a 
commissioner, or employee of the Texas Department of Workers' 
Compensation involved in hearing insurance cases is associated with 
the department and at any time thereafter.