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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
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. |