By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1095
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to judicial training on chemical dependency.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Amend Title 2, Government Code, by adding Section
    1-4  22.013 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 22.013.  TRAINING RELATED TO CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY.
    1-6  (a)  The supreme court shall provide judicial training related to
    1-7  chemical dependency issues.
    1-8        (b)  The supreme court shall adopt rules to provide for the
    1-9  training required by Subsection (a).  In adopting the rules, the
   1-10  court shall consult with the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
   1-11  Abuse to obtain the commission's recommendations for instruction
   1-12  content.
   1-13        (c)  The instruction must include information about:
   1-14              (1)  training on the process for referring court
   1-15  commitment patients;
   1-16              (2)  training on single diagnosis (for persons with a
   1-17  diagnosis of chemical dependency) versus dual diagnosis (for
   1-18  persons with a diagnosis of mental illness and chemical dependency)
   1-19  referral and the role of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
   1-20  Abuse and the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
   1-21  Retardation in these cases;
   1-22              (3)  training on mandatory drug offender education
   1-23  courses for persons convicted of drug offenses;
    2-1              (4)  training on the availability of mandatory DWI
    2-2  education courses for first time offenders;
    2-3              (5)  training on the availability of DWI education
    2-4  courses for repeat offenders;
    2-5              (6)  training on sentencing options into Substance
    2-6  Abuse Felony Punishment Facilities; and
    2-7              (7)  general training on the availability of substance
    2-8  abuse services throughout the state for adults and youth.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  Each judge who is in office on December 31, 1993,
   2-10  and is not exempt must complete the judicial training required by
   2-11  Section 22.011, Government Code, as amended by this Act,
   2-12  notwithstanding the requirement of that section that it be
   2-13  completed within the first term of office.  The training must be
   2-14  completed before August 31, 1996.
   2-15        (b)  A judge who takes office on or after January 1, 1994,
   2-16  and who is not exempt from or has not otherwise satisfied the
   2-17  requirements of Section 22.011(b), Government Code, as amended by
   2-18  this Act, must complete the judicial training required by that
   2-19  section within the judge's first term of office that begins on or
   2-20  after that date.
   2-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.