HBA-TYH H.B. 38 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 38
By: Corte
Public Education
2/15/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, public school employees who are assaulted at work are allowed up
to a two-year recovery time period.  H.B. 38 limits the maximum time of the
initial recovery period to one year, but provides for up to an additional
year of recovery if medically necessary within five years after the
assault. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 22.003(b), Education Code, to specify that  the
personal leave period provided by this section  may not extend beyond one
year, rather than two years, after the date of the assault, except that an
employee is authorized, before the fifth anniversary of the assault, to
receive additional leave totaling not more than one year if two physicians
certify that additional recovery time is medically necessary due to a
complication or another injury resulting from the assault. 

SECTION 2.  Provides that this act is applicable beginning with the
1999-2000 school year, and that it applies only to a public school employee
assaulted during or after that school year. 

SECTION 3.Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.