H.B. No. 238
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to judicial training related to the problems of family
    1-3  violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 22.011(b), Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The supreme court shall adopt the rules necessary to
    1-8  accomplish the purposes of this section.  The rules must require
    1-9  each district judge and each judge of a statutory county court to
   1-10  complete at least eight hours of the training within the judge's
   1-11  first term of office.  At least six hours of the training must be
   1-12  dedicated to the training described by Subsections (d)(5), (6), and
   1-13  (7).  The rules must exempt from the training requirement of this
   1-14  subsection each judge who files an affidavit with the Office of
   1-15  Court Administration stating that the judge does not hear any cases
   1-16  involving family violence, sexual assault, or child abuse.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  Each judge who is in office on December 31,
   1-18  1993, and is not exempt must complete the judicial training
   1-19  required by Section 22.011, Government Code, as amended by this
   1-20  Act, notwithstanding the requirement of that section that it be
   1-21  completed within the first term of office.  The training must be
   1-22  completed before August 31, 1996.
   1-23        (b)  A judge who takes office on or after January 1, 1994,
   1-24  and who is not exempt from or has not otherwise satisfied the
    2-1  requirements of Section 22.011(b), Government Code, as amended by
    2-2  this Act, must complete the judicial training required by that
    2-3  section within the judge's first term of office that begins on or
    2-4  after that date.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.