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.