Bill Text: TX HB1660 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to peace officer training on recognizing and recording circumstances that indicate strangulation in certain cases.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-03 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1660 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1660-Comm_Sub.html
86R7622 JCG-F | ||
By: Herrero, Hunter | H.B. No. 1660 |
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relating to peace officer training on recognizing and recording | ||
circumstances that indicate strangulation in certain cases. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1701.253(d), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) Training in documentation of cases required by | ||
Subsection (b) shall include instruction in: | ||
(1) making a written account of the extent of injuries | ||
sustained by the victim of an alleged offense; | ||
(2) recording by photograph or videotape the area in | ||
which an alleged offense occurred and the victim's injuries; [ |
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(3) recognizing and recording a victim's statement | ||
that may be admissible as evidence in a proceeding concerning the | ||
matter about which the statement was made; and | ||
(4) recognizing and recording circumstances | ||
indicating that a victim may have been assaulted in the manner | ||
described by Section 22.01(b)(2)(B), Penal Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1701.352(f), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) Training in documentation of cases required by | ||
Subsection (b) shall include instruction in: | ||
(1) making a written account of the extent of injuries | ||
sustained by the victim of an alleged offense; | ||
(2) recording by photograph or videotape the area in | ||
which an alleged offense occurred and the victim's injuries; [ |
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(3) recognizing and recording a victim's statement | ||
that may be admissible as evidence in a proceeding concerning the | ||
matter about which the statement was made; and | ||
(4) recognizing and recording circumstances | ||
indicating that a victim may have been assaulted in the manner | ||
described by Section 22.01(b)(2)(B), Penal Code. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than January 1, 2020, the Texas | ||
Commission on Law Enforcement shall establish or modify training | ||
programs as necessary to comply with Section 1701.253, Occupations | ||
Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
(b) The minimum curriculum requirements under Section | ||
1701.253(d), Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, apply only | ||
to a peace officer who first begins to satisfy those requirements on | ||
or after January 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |