Amend HB 473, Senate committee printing, by inserting the 
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS in the bill and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 410.032, Labor Code, is amended to 
read as follows:   
	Sec. 410.032.  PAYMENT OF BENEFITS UNDER INTERLOCUTORY 
ORDER.  (a)  The [As designated by the commissioner, division 
staff, other than the] benefit review officer who presides 
[presided or will preside] at the benefit review conference[,] 
shall consider a request for an interlocutory order and shall give 
the opposing party the opportunity to respond before issuing 
[issue] an interlocutory order [if determined to be appropriate].
	(b)  The interlocutory order may address the payment or 
suspension of accrued benefits, future benefits, or both accrued 
benefits and future benefits.
	SECTION ____.  Section 410.032, Labor Code, as amended by 
this Act, applies only to a request for an interlocutory order made 
in conjunction with a workers' compensation benefit review 
conference that is conducted by a benefit review officer on or after 
the effective date of this Act.  A request made before that date is 
governed by the law in effect on the date the request is made, and 
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.