By: Parker S.B. No. 174 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to peace officer training programs by the Commission on 1-2 Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 415.031, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) The commission shall include instruction in 1-7 constitutional law in a peace officer training program under 1-8 Subsection (a) and shall require a person seeking a peace officer 1-9 license to have received at least 40 hours of training in 1-10 constitutional law, with an emphasis on instruction about 1-11 individual rights and the federal bill of rights. The 1-12 constitutional law requirement may be satisfied through other 1-13 formal training that the commission determines to be equivalent to 1-14 three college semester hours. 1-15 SECTION 2. Section 415.034, Government Code, is amended by 1-16 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-17 (d) The commission shall develop a course of continuing 1-18 education that allows persons who are special investigators of the 1-19 United States covered under Article 2.122, Code of Criminal 1-20 Procedure, to obtain the necessary training to qualify as a peace 1-21 officer if the person is later elected, appointed, or employed as a 1-22 peace officer. 1-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.