S.B. No. 936 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. At the request of an employee, the school district must 1-12 immediately assign an employee to assault leave and, on 1-13 investigation of the claim, may change the assault leave status and 1-14 charge the leave against the employee's accrued sick leave or 1-15 against an employee's pay if insufficient accrued sick leave is 1-16 available. Days of leave taken under this subsection may not be 1-17 deducted from accrued sick leave. The period provided in this 1-18 subsection shall not extend more than two years beyond the date of 1-19 the assault. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, assault 1-20 leave policy benefits due to an employee will be coordinated with 1-21 temporary income benefits due from workers' compensation in order 1-22 that the employee's total compensation from temporary income 1-23 benefits and assault leave policy benefits will equal 100 percent 1-24 of the employee's weekly rate of pay. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.