1-1 By: Greenberg (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 238
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 11, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to judicial training related to the problems of family
1-18 violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Section 22.011(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 (b) The supreme court shall adopt the rules necessary to
1-23 accomplish the purposes of this section. The rules must require
1-24 each district judge and each judge of a statutory county court to
1-25 complete at least eight hours of the training within the judge's
1-26 first term of office. At least six hours of the training must be
1-27 dedicated to the training described by Subsections (d)(5), (6), and
1-28 (7). The rules must exempt from the training requirement of this
1-29 subsection each judge who files an affidavit with the Office of
1-30 Court Administration stating that the judge does not hear any cases
1-31 involving family violence, sexual assault, or child abuse.
1-32 SECTION 2. (a) Each judge who is in office on December 31,
1-33 1993, and is not exempt must complete the judicial training
1-34 required by Section 22.011, Government Code, as amended by this
1-35 Act, notwithstanding the requirement of that section that it be
1-36 completed within the first term of office. The training must be
1-37 completed before August 31, 1996.
1-38 (b) A judge who takes office on or after January 1, 1994,
1-39 and who is not exempt from or has not otherwise satisfied the
1-40 requirements of Section 22.011(b), Government Code, as amended by
1-41 this Act, must complete the judicial training required by that
1-42 section within the judge's first term of office that begins on or
1-43 after that date.
1-44 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-50 Austin,
1-51 Texas
1-52 May 11, 1993
1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-54 President of the Senate
1-55 Sir:
1-56 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
1-57 No. 238, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-58 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-59 pass and be printed.
1-60 Henderson,
1-61 Chairman
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1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 FOR AGAINST ON
1-65 ___________________________________________________________________
1-66 Name: Rhonda Cates x
1-67 Representing: Tx Cncl on Fam. Violence
1-68 City: Austin
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2-2 Name: E. Shaw x
2-3 Representing: Self
2-4 City: Houston
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2-6 Name: Shannon Noble x
2-7 Representing: Tx Women's Pol. Caucus
2-8 City: Austin
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2-10 Name: Jane Gump x
2-11 Representing: Texas CASA
2-12 City: Austin
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2-14 Name: Marguerite White x
2-15 Representing: Tx Coal. for Juv. Justice
2-16 City: Austin
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2-18 Name: Clarice Kubala x
2-19 Representing: Self
2-20 City: Temple
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2-22 Name: Ms. Winifred Conlon x
2-23 Representing: Tx State Foster Parents
2-24 City: Austin
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