By Luna                                               H.B. No. 3559
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to leave for school district employees who have been
 1-3     physically injured under certain circumstances.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 22.003(b), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  In addition to all other days of leave provided by this
 1-8     section or by the school district, an employee of a school district
 1-9     who, [is physically assaulted] during the performance of the
1-10     employee's regular duties, is physically injured as a result of
1-11     physical contact or the threat of physical contact the employee
1-12     regards as offensive or provocative is entitled  to the number of
1-13     days of leave necessary to recuperate from all physical injuries
1-14     sustained as a result of the physical contact or threat  [assault].
1-15     At the request of an employee, the school district must immediately
1-16     assign an employee to assault leave and, on investigation of the
1-17     claim, may change the assault leave status and charge the leave
1-18     against the employee's accrued personal leave or against an
1-19     employee's pay if insufficient accrued personal leave is available.
1-20     Days of leave taken under this subsection may not be deducted from
1-21     accrued personal leave.  The period provided by this subsection may
1-22     not extend more than two years beyond the date of the physical
1-23     contact or threat [assault].  Notwithstanding any other law,
1-24     assault leave policy benefits due to an  employee shall be
 2-1     coordinated with temporary income benefits due from workers'
 2-2     compensation so that the employee's total compensation from
 2-3     temporary income benefits and assault leave policy benefits equals
 2-4     100 percent of the employee's weekly rate of pay.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.