1-1 By: Place (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 2826
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;
1-3 April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; April 30, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 30, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the qualifications required for appointment as a
1-9 community supervision and corrections department officer.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 76.005(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (b) To be eligible for appointment as an officer who
1-14 supervises defendants placed on community supervision a person[:]
1-15 [(1)] must have acquired a bachelor's degree conferred
1-16 by an institution of higher education accredited by an accrediting
1-17 organization recognized by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
1-18 Board[; and]
1-19 [(2) unless the bachelor's degree is in criminology,
1-20 corrections, counseling, law, social work, psychology, sociology,
1-21 or a related field that has been approved by the division, must
1-22 have:]
1-23 [(A) one year of graduate study in one of those
1-24 fields; or]
1-25 [(B) one year of experience in full-time
1-26 casework, counseling, or community or group work that has been
1-27 approved by the division].
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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