By:  Greenberg                                         H.B. No. 238
       73R1496 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  (a)  Each judge who is in office on December 31,
   1-13  1993, must complete the judicial training required by
   1-14  Section 22.011, Government Code, as amended by this Act,
   1-15  notwithstanding the requirement of that section that it be
   1-16  completed within the first term of office.  The training must be
   1-17  completed before August 31, 1996.
   1-18        (b)  A judge who takes office on or after January 1, 1994,
   1-19  and who has not otherwise satisfied the requirements of
   1-20  Section 22.011(b), Government Code, as amended by this Act, must
   1-21  complete the judicial training required by that section within the
   1-22  judge's first term of office that begins on or after that date.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.