82R14090 T
By: Patrick S.B. No. 1544
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a determination on granting assault leave to a
certified educator where there has been a juvenile or criminal
conviction.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 22.003(c), Education Cade, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 22.003. (c) For purposes of Subsection (b), an
employee of a school district [is] shall be deemed to have been
physically assaulted and shall be granted assault leave by the
district as of the date of the assault regardless of any intervening
determination by the district if the person engaging in the conduct
causing injury to the employee:
(1) has been found guilty of the crime of assault based
on the same conduct causing injury to the employee by either a
juvenile or criminal court of law;
(2) [(1)] could be prosecuted for assault; or
(3) [(2)] could not be prosecuted for assault only
because the person's age or mental capacity makes the person a
nonresponsible person for purposes of criminal liability.
SECTION 2. 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.