[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3203 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3203

   To require the administrative agency responsible for adjudicating 
 claims under the workers' compensation provisions of title 5, United 
 States Code, to follow certain procedures in seeking medical opinions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 1996

  Mr. Bilbray (for himself and Ms. Dunn of Washington) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Economic and 
                       Educational Opportunities

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the administrative agency responsible for adjudicating 
 claims under the workers' compensation provisions of title 5, United 
 States Code, to follow certain procedures in seeking medical opinions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MEDICAL OPINIONS.

    The administrative agency to which the Secretary of Labor has 
delegated the authority to adjudicate claims made under the workers' 
compensation provisions of title 5, United States Code, shall in 
seeking a second medical opinion in such a claim select physicians on 
an impartial basis.
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