1-1  By:  Shapiro, Moncrief                                 S.B. No. 242
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 1995; January 18, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  January 31, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; January 31, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Shapiro
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 242 as follows:
    1-8        In SECTION 1 of the bill, proposed Section 141.0431(1), Human
    1-9  Resources Code, between "programs" and ";", insert "that include
   1-10  discussion of domestic violence and child abuse issues" (introduced
   1-11  version, page 1, line 11; committee printing, page 1, line   ).
   1-12                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-13                                AN ACT
   1-14  relating to violence prevention and conflict resolution training
   1-15  for use in juvenile probation.
   1-16        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-17        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 141, Human Resources Code,
   1-18  is amended by adding Section 141.0431 to read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 141.0431.  VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
   1-20  TRAINING.  The commission shall:
   1-21              (1)  provide training on request to juvenile probation
   1-22  departments and juvenile boards in violence prevention and conflict
   1-23  resolution programs; and
   1-24              (2)  encourage the inclusion of a violence prevention
   1-25  and conflict resolution program as a condition of probation.
   1-26        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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