1-1  By:  Shapiro, Moncrief                                 S.B. No. 243
    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 by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  6, Nays 0; January 31, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to educating juveniles under the custody of the Texas
    1-9  Youth Commission in violence prevention and conflict resolution.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code,
   1-12  is amended by adding Section 61.047 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 61.047.  VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
   1-14  EDUCATION.  The commission shall provide education in violence
   1-15  prevention and conflict resolution that includes discussion of
   1-16  domestic violence and child abuse issues to all children in its
   1-17  custody.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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