S.B. No. 131 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the duties of the Department of Protective and 1-2 Regulatory Services regarding domestic violence. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 12, Article 4413(503), Revised Statutes, 1-5 is amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (d) The department shall adopt and implement rules requiring 1-7 investigating employees to document indications of domestic 1-8 violence, including elder, spouse, and child abuse. The department 1-9 may develop forms to facilitate the documentation process. The 1-10 department shall include statistical compilations of the 1-11 information documented under this subsection in its annual report. 1-12 (e) The department shall adopt rules requiring that written 1-13 information concerning community services available to victims of 1-14 domestic violence, printed in English and Spanish, be distributed 1-15 to those victims. The department may coordinate its efforts under 1-16 this subsection with local law enforcement agencies already 1-17 providing such information. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. The 1-19 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services shall adopt and 1-20 implement the rules required under Subsections (d) and (e), Section 1-21 12, Article 4413(503), Revised Statutes, as added by this Act, not 1-22 later than January 1, 1996. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.