By Shapiro                                             S.B. No. 243
       74R3152 NSC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to educating juveniles under the custody of the Texas
    1-3  Youth Commission in violence prevention and conflict resolution.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 61.047 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 61.047.  VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    1-8  EDUCATION.  The commission shall provide education in violence
    1-9  prevention and conflict resolution that includes discussion of
   1-10  domestic violence and child abuse issues to all children in its
   1-11  custody.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.