Amend CSHB 2335 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 5, line 14, strike ", including a definition of trauma,".
(2) On page 5, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following:
(d) In this section:
(1) "Evidence-based trauma training" means training related to the provision of services that provide a child or adolescent who has experienced trauma with:
(A) the notion of physical and emotional safety;
(B) positive and comfortable relationships with caregivers, mentors, and any other persons who interact with the child or adolescent; and
(C) the ability to manage the child's or adolescent's emotions and to self-regulate in the child's or adolescent's life experiences with others.
(2) "Trauma" means any experience of maltreatment, interpersonal violence, abuse, or neglect encountered by a child or adolescent, including:
(A) familial physical, sexual, or emotional abuse;
(B) community, peer, and school-based assault, molestation, and severe bullying;
(C) severe neglect;
(D) witnessing domestic violence;
(E) the impact of serious and pervasive disruptions in caregiving for the child or adolescent resulting from severe caregiver mental illness, substance abuse, or criminal involvement or abrupt separation of the child or adolescent from the caregiver; and
(F) traumatic loss.