By Place H.B. No. 2826
75R6353 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the qualifications required for appointment as a
1-3 community supervision and corrections department officer.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 76.005(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) To be eligible for appointment as an officer who
1-8 supervises defendants placed on community supervision a person[:]
1-9 [(1)] must have acquired a bachelor's degree conferred
1-10 by an institution of higher education accredited by an accrediting
1-11 organization recognized by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
1-12 Board[; and]
1-13 [(2) unless the bachelor's degree is in criminology,
1-14 corrections, counseling, law, social work, psychology, sociology,
1-15 or a related field that has been approved by the division, must
1-16 have:]
1-17 [(A) one year of graduate study in one of those
1-18 fields; or]
1-19 [(B) one year of experience in full-time
1-20 casework, counseling, or community or group work that has been
1-21 approved by the division].
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.