Bill Text: TX HB3409 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for training regarding trauma for judges, prosecuting attorneys, correctional officers, and law enforcement officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3409 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3409-Comm_Sub.html
86R12492 YDB-F | ||
By: Reynolds, White, Wu, Allen, Miller | H.B. No. 3409 |
|
||
|
||
relating to requirements for training regarding trauma for judges, | ||
prosecuting attorneys, correctional officers, and law enforcement | ||
officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 22, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 22.1102 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 22.1102. JUDICIAL TRAINING RELATED TO TRAUMA. (a) The | ||
court of criminal appeals shall assure that judicial training | ||
related to trauma is provided. | ||
(b) The court of criminal appeals shall adopt the rules | ||
necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section. The rules | ||
must require each district judge, judge of a statutory county | ||
court, or judge of a county court to complete at least eight hours | ||
of the training within the judge's first term of office and provide | ||
a method for certification of completion of that training. The | ||
training must be dedicated to issues related to trauma and the | ||
impact of trauma to enable each judge to identify individuals who | ||
have experienced traumatic events, minimize re-traumatization, and | ||
refer those individuals to the appropriate medical or mental health | ||
care professional for treatment. The rules must exempt from the | ||
training requirement of this subsection each judge or judicial | ||
officer who files an affidavit stating that the judge or judicial | ||
officer does not hear any criminal cases. | ||
(c) In adopting the rules, the court of criminal appeals may | ||
consult with the supreme court and with professional groups and | ||
associations in the state that have expertise in the subject matter | ||
to obtain the recommendations of those groups or associations for | ||
instruction content. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 22, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 22.1115 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 22.1115. TRAINING FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS RELATED TO | ||
TRAUMA. The court of criminal appeals shall provide to prosecuting | ||
attorneys training related to trauma and the impact of trauma to | ||
enable each prosecuting attorney to identify individuals who have | ||
experienced traumatic events, minimize re-traumatization, and | ||
refer those individuals to the appropriate medical or mental health | ||
care professional for treatment. | ||
SECTION 3. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 493.032 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 493.032. TRAUMA-INFORMED TRAINING FOR CORRECTIONAL | ||
OFFICERS. The department shall require each correctional officer | ||
employed by the department to complete, during the officer's first | ||
24 months of service, not less than 8 hours of training related to | ||
trauma and the impact of trauma to enable each officer to identify | ||
inmates who have experienced traumatic events, minimize | ||
re-traumatization, and refer those inmates to the appropriate | ||
medical or mental health care professional for treatment. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 1701.253, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (p) to read as follows: | ||
(p) As part of the minimum curriculum requirements, the | ||
commission shall require each officer to complete not less than | ||
eight hours of training related to trauma and the impact of trauma | ||
to enable each officer to identify individuals who have experienced | ||
traumatic events, minimize re-traumatization, and refer those | ||
individuals to the appropriate medical or mental health care | ||
professional for treatment. | ||
SECTION 5. (a) Not later than December 1, 2019, the court | ||
of criminal appeals shall adopt the rules necessary to provide the | ||
training required by Section 22.1102, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act. | ||
(b) A judge who is in office on the effective date of this | ||
Act must complete the training required by Section 22.1102, | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than September 1, | ||
2020. | ||
SECTION 6. The court of criminal appeals shall make the | ||
training described by Section 22.1115, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, available to prosecuting attorneys not later than January | ||
1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 7. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall | ||
make the training described by Section 493.032, Government Code, as | ||
added by this Act, available to correctional officers not later | ||
than January 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 8. Not later than December 1, 2019, the Texas | ||
Commission on Law Enforcement shall establish the training program | ||
required by Section 1701.253(p), Occupations Code, as added by this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |