Amend CSHB 2335 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 264.015, Family Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 264.015.  TRAINING. (a) The department shall include evidence-based trauma training [in trauma-informed programs and services] in any training the department provides to foster parents, adoptive parents, kinship caregivers, department caseworkers, and department supervisors.  The department shall pay for the training provided under this subsection with gifts, donations, and grants and any federal money available through the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Pub. L. No. 110-351).  The department shall annually evaluate the effectiveness of the training provided under this subsection to ensure progress toward a trauma-informed system of care.

(b)  The department shall require department caseworkers and department supervisors to complete an annual refresher evidence-based trauma training course [in trauma-informed programs and services].

(c)  To the extent that resources are available, the department shall assist the following entities in developing evidence-based trauma training [in trauma-informed programs and services] and in locating money and other resources to assist the entities in providing evidence-based trauma [trauma-informed] programs and services:

(1)  court-appointed special advocate programs;

(2)  children's advocacy centers;

(3)  local community mental health centers created under Section 534.001, Health and Safety Code; and

(4)  domestic violence shelters.

SECTION ____.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section 264.015, Family Code, do not create additional training requirements for foster parents, adoptive parents, kinship caregivers, and Department of Family and Protective Services caseworkers and supervisors.