By Ritter                                             H.B. No. 3353
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to assault leave for public school employees.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 22.003, Education Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  A school district employee who, during the performance
 1-7     of the employee's regular duties, is injured by a student who
 1-8     qualifies for services under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, is entitled
 1-9     to assault leave in accordance with Subsection (b).
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-11     school year.
1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.