By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 936
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the coordination of leave policies and workers'
    1-2  compensation for school employees injured by assault.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 13.904, Education Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (f)  In addition to all other days of leave provided by this
    1-7  section or by the school district, an employee of a school district
    1-8  who is physically assaulted during the performance of his regular
    1-9  duties is entitled to the number of days of leave necessary to
   1-10  recuperate from all physical injuries sustained as a result of the
   1-11  assault.  Days of leave taken under this subsection may not be
   1-12  deducted from accrued sick leave.  The period provided in this
   1-13  subsection shall not extend more than two years beyond the date of
   1-14  the assault.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, assault
   1-15  leave policy benefits due to an employee will be coordinated with
   1-16  benefits due from workers' compensation in order that the
   1-17  employee's total compensation will equal 100 percent of the
   1-18  employee's weekly rate of pay.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.