S.B. No. 225
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to requiring law enforcement officers to receive training
    1-2  in documentation techniques for certain cases.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 415.032, Government Code, is amended by
    1-5  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (b)  In establishing requirements under this section, the
    1-8  commission shall require courses and programs to provide training
    1-9  in the investigation and documentation of cases that involve the
   1-10  following:
   1-11              (1)  child abuse;
   1-12              (2)  child neglect;
   1-13              (3)  family violence; and
   1-14              (4)  sexual assault.
   1-15        (d)  Training in documentation of cases required by
   1-16  Subsection (b) shall include instruction in:
   1-17              (1)  making a written account of the extent of injuries
   1-18  sustained by the victim of an alleged offense;
   1-19              (2)  recording by photograph or videotape the area in
   1-20  which an alleged offense occurred and any injuries sustained by the
   1-21  victim; and
   1-22              (3)  recognizing and recording any statement of a
   1-23  victim that may be admissible as evidence in a future proceeding
   1-24  concerning the matter about which the statement was made.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  Section 415.034, Government Code, is amended by
    2-2  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
    2-3  follows:
    2-4        (b)  The commission shall require a state, county, special
    2-5  district, or municipal agency that appoints or employs peace
    2-6  officers to provide each peace officer with a training program
    2-7  every 24 months.  The course must:
    2-8              (1)  be approved by the commission; and
    2-9              (2)  include education and training in:
   2-10                    (A)  civil rights, racial sensitivity, and
   2-11  cultural diversity; and
   2-12                    (B)  unless determined by the agency head to be
   2-13  inconsistent with the officer's assigned duties, the recognition
   2-14  and documentation of cases that involve the following:
   2-15                          (i)  child abuse;
   2-16                          (ii)  child neglect;
   2-17                          (iii)  family violence; and
   2-18                          (iv)  sexual assault.
   2-19        (g)  Training in documentation of cases required by
   2-20  Subsection (b) shall include instruction in:
   2-21              (1)  making a written account of the extent of injuries
   2-22  sustained by the victim of an alleged offense;
   2-23              (2)  recording by photograph or videotape the area in
   2-24  which an alleged offense occurred and any injuries sustained by the
   2-25  victim; and
   2-26              (3)  recognizing and recording any statement of a
   2-27  victim that may be admissible as evidence in a future proceeding
    3-1  concerning the matter about which the statement was made.
    3-2        SECTION 3.  (a)  The Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
    3-3  Standards and Education shall establish the new courses and
    3-4  programs required under Sections 415.032 and 415.034, Government
    3-5  Code, as amended by this Act, not later than January 1, 1996.
    3-6        (b)  For persons who are peace officers on September 1, 1995,
    3-7  the first set of courses required under Section 415.034, Government
    3-8  Code, as amended by this Act, must be completed before September 1,
    3-9  1997.
   3-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-16  passage, and it is so enacted.