1-1 By: Parker S.B. No. 174
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 1993; January 27, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 6, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 6, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Whitmire x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Nelson x
1-12 Sibley x
1-13 Sims x
1-14 Turner x
1-15 West x
1-16 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 174 By: West
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to peace officer training programs by the Commission on
1-20 Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Section 415.031, Government Code, is amended by
1-23 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-24 (e) The commission shall include instruction in
1-25 constitutional law in a peace officer training program under
1-26 Subsection (a) and shall require a person seeking a peace officer
1-27 license to have received at least 40 hours of training in
1-28 constitutional law, with an emphasis on instruction about
1-29 individual rights and the federal bill of rights. The
1-30 constitutional law requirement may be satisfied through other
1-31 formal training that the commission determines to be equivalent to
1-32 three college semester hours.
1-33 SECTION 2. Section 415.034, Government Code, is amended by
1-34 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-35 (d) The commission shall develop a course of continuing
1-36 education that allows persons who are special investigators of the
1-37 United States covered under Article 2.122, Code of Criminal
1-38 Procedure, to obtain the necessary training to qualify as a peace
1-39 officer if the person is later elected, appointed, or employed as a
1-40 peace officer.
1-41 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-42 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-47 * * * * *
1-48 Austin,
1-49 Texas
1-50 April 6, 1993
1-51 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-52 President of the Senate
1-53 Sir:
1-54 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B.
1-55 No. 174, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-56 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-57 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
1-58 do pass and be printed.
1-59 Whitmire,
1-60 Chairman
1-61 * * * * *
1-62 WITNESSES
1-63 FOR AGAINST ON
1-64 ___________________________________________________________________
1-65 Name: Vince Torres x
1-66 Representing: Self & PAVC
1-67 City: Austin
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2-1 Name: Tommy Britt x
2-2 Representing: Houston Police Officers Assn
2-3 City: Houston
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2-5 Name: Ross Schulle x
2-6 Representing: Tx Comm on Law Enforcement
2-7 City: Austin
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2-9 Name: Ron De Lord x
2-10 Representing: CLEAT
2-11 City: Austin
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