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.