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	Amend CSSB 6 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTION to the bill and renumbering the remaining SECTIONS of the 
bill as appropriate:
	SECTION ___.  Subchapter D, Chapter 261, Family Code, is 
amended by adding Section 261.3016 to read as follows:
	Sec. 261.3016.  TRAINING OF PERSONNEL RECEIVING REPORTS OF 
ABUSE AND NEGLECT.  The department shall develop, in cooperation 
with local law enforcement officials and the Commission on State 
Emergency Communications, a training program for department 
personnel who receive reports of abuse and neglect.  The training 
program must include information on:
		(1)  the proper methods of screening reports of abuse 
and neglect; and
		(2)  ways to determine the seriousness of a report, 
including determining whether a report alleges circumstances that 
could result in the death of or serious harm to a child or whether 
the report is less serious in nature.