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2025 Texas Statutes
Labor Code
Title 2 - Protection of Laborers
Subtitle D - Employee Benefits
Chapter 82 - Discharge of Liability Under Certain Employee Benefit Plans
Section 82.002. Discharge of Liability
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TX Lab Code § 82.002 (2025)
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Sec. 82.002. DISCHARGE OF LIABILITY. (a) A payment or refund made by an employer or trustee under a written employee benefit plan to a person described by Subsection (b) fully discharges the employer or trustee from all adverse claims against the payment or refund unless, before making the payment, the employer or trustee receives a notice that some other person claims to be entitled to all or part of the payment or refund.
(b) Subsection (a) applies to a payment to:
(1) an employee;
(2) a former employee;
(3) an employee's or former employee's beneficiary, heir, or legatee; or
(4) a representative of an employee's or former employee's estate.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 9.19(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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