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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the qualifications for counselors for battering |
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intervention and prevention programs in certain counties. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 5, Article 42.141, Code of Criminal |
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Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: |
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(d) A person who provides direct battering intervention |
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counseling services to a batterer for a program located in a county |
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with a population of more than 50,000 must be licensed as a social |
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worker, professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, or |
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psychologist or a licensed physician who is board certified in |
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psychiatry. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2014. |