By Greenberg                                           H.B. No. 591
       74R1663 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating  to training for certain law enforcement professionals.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 5(a), Article 42.131, Code of Criminal
    1-5  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  An officer <Officers> appointed by the department
    1-7  director must:
    1-8              (1)  comply with a code of ethics developed by the
    1-9  division; and
   1-10              (2)  not later than the first anniversary of the date
   1-11  on which the officer is appointed, complete at least four hours of
   1-12  department-approved instruction that includes information related
   1-13  to:
   1-14                    (A)  family violence;
   1-15                    (B)  sexual assault; and
   1-16                    (C)  child abuse.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 7(h), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
   1-18  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
   1-19        (h)  The board shall develop for its members a comprehensive
   1-20  training and education program on the Texas criminal justice
   1-21  system, with  special emphasis on the parole process.  A new member
   1-22  may not participate in a vote of the board or a panel until the
   1-23  member completes the program.  The program must include instruction
   1-24  relating to family violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  Section 19, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
    2-2  Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    2-3        (f)  A person appointed by the director to serve as a parole
    2-4  officer or supervisor  shall complete at least four hours of
    2-5  instruction not later than the first anniversary of the date on
    2-6  which the person is appointed.  The instruction must:
    2-7              (1)  be approved by the director; and
    2-8              (2)  include information related to family violence,
    2-9  sexual assault, and child abuse.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act in amending
   2-11  Section 5(a), Article 42.131, and Section 7(h), Article 42.18, Code
   2-12  of Criminal Procedure, and adding Section 19(f), Article 42.18,
   2-13  Code of Criminal Procedure, apply only to training for a person
   2-14  appointed as an officer or parole board member on or after the
   2-15  effective date of this Act.
   2-16        SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-17        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.