1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1168
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 16, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 13, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; April 13, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Whitmire x
1-9 Brown x
1-10 Nelson x
1-11 Sibley x
1-12 Sims x
1-13 Turner x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the provision of professionals to aid in the treatment
1-18 of felons for substance abuse.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 493.009, Government Code,
1-21 is amended to read as follows:
1-22 (e) The department shall contract through the Texas
1-23 Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse with nonprofit organizations
1-24 and private, for-profit entities to provide qualified professionals
1-25 to implement the program for persons sentenced under Section
1-26 12.422, Penal Code. For purposes of this subsection, a "qualified
1-27 professional" is a person who:
1-28 (1) is a certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor;
1-29 (2) is a certified social worker or advanced clinical
1-30 practitioner and who has at least two years of experience in
1-31 chemical dependency counseling; or
1-32 (3) is a licensed professional counselor, physician,
1-33 or psychologist and who has at least two years of experience in
1-34 chemical dependency counseling.
1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-42 * * * * *
1-43 Austin,
1-44 Texas
1-45 April 13, 1993
1-46 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-47 President of the Senate
1-48 Sir:
1-49 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B.
1-50 No. 1168, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-51 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-52 that it do pass and be printed.
1-53 Whitmire,
1-54 Chairman
1-55 * * * * *
1-56 WITNESSES
1-57 FOR AGAINST ON
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1-59 Name: Sandy Kibby x
1-60 Representing: Tx PTA
1-61 City: Austin
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1-63 Name: John Bonner x
1-64 Representing: Kyle New Vision Facility
1-65 City: Kyle
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