Bill Text: TX HB3403 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3403 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to personal leave provided for a school district employee who is a victim of certain assaults.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Public Education [HB3403 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB3403-Introduced.html

	82R9834 CAE-F

	By: Weber	H.B. No. 3403



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to personal leave provided for a school district employee
	who is a victim of certain assaults.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 22.003(b), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b) In addition to all other days of leave provided by this
	section or by the school district, an employee of a school district
	who is the victim of an intentional physical assault by a student
	[~~physically assaulted~~] during the performance of the employee's
	regular duties is entitled to the number of days of leave necessary
	to recuperate from all physical injuries sustained as a result of
	the assault. At the request of an employee, the school district
	must immediately assign an employee to assault leave and, on
	investigation of the claim, may change the assault leave status and
	charge the leave against the employee's accrued personal leave or
	against an employee's pay if insufficient accrued personal leave is
	available. Days of leave taken under this subsection may not be
	deducted from accrued personal leave. The period provided by this
	subsection may not extend more than one year [~~two years~~] beyond the
	date of the assault. Notwithstanding any other law, assault leave
	policy benefits due to an employee shall be coordinated with
	temporary income benefits due from workers' compensation so that
	the employee's total compensation from temporary income benefits
	and assault leave policy benefits equals 100 percent of the
	employee's weekly rate of pay.
	SECTION 2. Section 22.003(b), Education Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies only to an employee assaulted on or after the
	effective date of this Act. An employee assaulted before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
	date of the assault, and the former law is continued in effect for
	that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.