Bill Text: TX HB49 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to personal leave provided for a school district employee who is a victim of certain assaults.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-07 - Referred to Public Education [HB49 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB49-Introduced.html
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| By: Weber | H.B. No. 49 | |
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| 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 | ||
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| 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 [ |
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| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
