| (a) Medical care available to a professional athlete
subject to the Texas Workers' Compensation Act (the Act), Texas Labor
Code, §406.095, is equal to or greater than medical benefits
under the Act if:
(1) the athlete is entitled to all health care reasonably
required by the nature of the work-related injury as and when needed,
including all health care that:
(A) cures or relieves the effects naturally resulting
from the work-related injury;
(B) promotes recovery; or
(C) enhances the ability of the employee to return
to or retain employment; and
(2) the employer's liability for health care is not
limited or terminated in any way by the contract or collective bargaining
agreement.
(b) When the athlete is not eligible for lifetime income
benefits or when the athlete's legal beneficiaries are not eligible
for death benefits under the Act, weekly benefits available to a professional
athlete subject to the Act, §406.095, are equal to or greater
than the income benefits provided under the Act if the total amount
of the payments provided for in the contract or collective bargaining
agreement is equal to or greater than the maximum weekly benefit available
under the Act multiplied by 104.
(c) When the athlete is entitled to lifetime income
benefits under the Act, weekly benefits available to a professional
athlete subject to the Act, §406.095, are equal to or greater
than the income benefits provided under the Act if equal to or greater
than the maximum weekly benefit available under the Act.
(d) When the athlete's legal beneficiaries are entitled
to death benefits under the Act, weekly benefits available to the
legal beneficiaries of a professional athlete subject to the Act, §406.095,
are equal to or greater than the death benefits provided under the
Act if equal to or greater than the maximum weekly benefit available
under the Act.
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