By: Moncrief S.B. No. 1121
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to continuing education training programs for peace
1-2 officers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 415.034,
1-5 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The commission shall require a state, county, special
1-7 district, or municipal agency that appoints or employs peace
1-8 officers to provide each peace officer with a training program
1-9 every 24 months. The course must:
1-10 (1) be approved by the commission; <and>
1-11 (2) use curricula developed by the commission; and
1-12 (3) include education and training in:
1-13 (A) civil rights, racial sensitivity, and
1-14 cultural diversity; and
1-15 (B) the recognition of cases that involve the
1-16 following:
1-17 (i) child abuse;
1-18 (ii) child neglect;
1-19 (iii) family violence; and
1-20 (iv) sexual assault.
1-21 (c) The course provided under Subsection (b):
1-22 (1) may not exceed 40 hours; and
1-23 (2) may include instructional materials developed by
2-1 the agency or its trainers in addition to materials included in
2-2 curricula developed by the commission.
2-3 SECTION 2. The Commission of Law Enforcement Officer
2-4 Standards and Education shall establish the curricula for
2-5 continuing education training programs for peace officers as
2-6 required by Section 415.034, Government Code, as amended by this
2-7 Act, not later than January 1, 1996.
2-8 SECTION 3. (a) The Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
2-9 Standards and Education shall conduct a study on methods of
2-10 measuring the quality and effectiveness of continuing education
2-11 training programs for peace officers under Section 415.034,
2-12 Government Code, and report the findings of the study to the 75th
2-13 Legislature not later than January 31, 1997.
2-14 (b) The report shall include:
2-15 (1) recommendations for methods by which the
2-16 Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education will
2-17 measure the quality and effectiveness of continuing education
2-18 training programs;
2-19 (2) a plan for implementation of the recommended
2-20 methods to measure quality and effectiveness; and
2-21 (3) a means of funding the recommended methods.
2-22 (c) In conducting the study and developing the
2-23 recommendations required by this section, the Commission on Law
2-24 Enforcement Officer Standards and Education shall consult with law
2-25 enforcement organizations and advocacy groups with an interest in
3-1 continuing education training programs for peace officers.
3-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.