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.