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Senate Bill 1356 |
Senate Author: Van de Putte |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
House Sponsor: McClendon et al. |
Senate Bill 1356 amends the Human Resources Code to require the Texas Juvenile Justice Board, in adopting rules regarding personnel standards, to require probation officers, juvenile supervision officers, and court-supervised community-based program personnel to receive trauma-informed care training that provides knowledge, in line with best practices, of how to interact with juveniles who have experienced traumatic events. The bill requires the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) to provide that trauma-informed care training during the preservice training for juvenile probation officers, juvenile supervision officers, juvenile correctional officers, and juvenile parole officers and additionally requires the training provided to juvenile correctional officers to include information and instruction concerning signs and symptoms of the human trafficking of a child. The bill requires TJJD to evaluate the practices and screening procedures used by juvenile probation departments for the early identification of juveniles who are victims of sex trafficking for the purpose of developing a recommended set of best practices that may be used by a juvenile probation department to improve the department's ability to make that identification.
Senate Bill 1356 amends the Government Code to require the Texas Crime Stoppers Council to create at least one specialized program that encourages individuals to report criminal activity relating to the trafficking of persons and that financially rewards each individual who makes a report that leads or substantially contributes to the arrest or apprehension of a person suspected of engaging in conduct that constitutes a trafficking of persons offense.