By:  Shapiro, Moncrief, West                           S.B. No. 243
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to educating juveniles under the custody of the Texas
    1-2  Youth Commission in violence prevention and conflict resolution.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code,
    1-5  is amended by adding Section 61.047 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 61.047.  VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    1-7  EDUCATION.  The commission shall provide education in violence
    1-8  prevention and conflict resolution that includes discussion of
    1-9  domestic violence and child abuse issues to all children in its
   1-10  custody.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.