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.