The Boston City Council unanimously approved a home rule petition that would hike disability pension benefits for a former city schoolteacher who was pummeled by a 16-year-old student in a 2021 attack that left her with traumatic brain damage.

The Council voted, 13-0, Wednesday in favor of legislation that would allow former Henderson Inclusion School Principal Patricia Lampron to receive a disability pension equal to 100% of the average annual rate of what her regular compensation would have been just before her retirement allowance became effective in March 2023, had she not been injured in November 2021.

“I’m filing this home rule petition … to help Tricia Lampron receive the retirement pension that she deserves,” Councilor John FitzGerald said at the meeting. “On Nov. 3, 2021, while in her capacity as principal, Tricia was seriously injured in a violent attack by a student. She was punched in the head and face repeatedly with a closed fist. She was completely knocked out for at least four minutes.”

Lampron was 61 at the time of the attack. FitzGerald said the beating left her with traumatic brain injury that has affected her speech, mobility, and cognition, along with post-traumatic stress disorder, and made it impossible for her to return to work.

FitzGerald, who represents Dorchester, where the Henderson School is located, said Lampron received workers’ compensation from the date of the injury through Nov. 3, 2024, but those benefits only covered 60% of her salary.

Lampron was left having to use sick time to cover the remaining 40%, which the councilor said has “impacted her pension and annuity fund considerably.”

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The petition, co-sponsored by Councilors Erin Murphy and Ed Flynn, would have to be signed by the mayor and approved by state lawmakers to take effect.

Murphy, a former Boston schoolteacher who worked with Lampron, said the legislation is “long overdue.”

The increased pension payments, along with compensation for Lampron’s medical bills incurred as a result of her on-the-job injury, would be borne by city taxpayers through the Boston Retirement Board.

FitzGerald said the governor signed a similar bill into law last year to hike disability pension payments to 100% of regular compensation for first responders injured in the line of duty. That pay decreases to 80% when they reach retirement age.

The student, Laurette LeRouge, of Mattapan, was convicted last year on assault and battery on a person over the age of 60.