Bill Text: TX HB2650 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the continuation and duties of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force and establishment of a mandatory training program for peace officers on responding to reports of child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-17 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB2650 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2650-Engrossed.html
| By: Howard, Guillen, Neave Criado, Garcia, | H.B. No. 2650 | |
| Harless, et al. | ||
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| relating to the continuation and duties of the Sexual Assault | ||
| Survivors' Task Force and establishment of a mandatory training | ||
| program for peace officers on responding to reports of child sexual | ||
| abuse and adult sexual assault. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 772.0064(m), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (m) Chapter 2110 does not apply to the composition or | ||
| duration of the task force or to the designation of the task force's | ||
| presiding officer [ |
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| SECTION 2. Section 1701.253, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (q) to read as follows: | ||
| (q) As part of the minimum curriculum requirements, the | ||
| commission shall require an officer to complete the basic education | ||
| and training program developed under Section 1701.272. An officer | ||
| shall complete the program not later than the last day of the first | ||
| full continuing education training period after the date the | ||
| officer is licensed under this chapter unless the officer completes | ||
| the program as part of the officer's basic training course. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1701.272 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1701.272. TRAINING PROGRAM ON RESPONDING TO SEXUAL | ||
| ABUSE OR ASSAULT. (a) The commission shall, in consultation with | ||
| the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force established under Section | ||
| 772.0064, Government Code, establish a basic education and training | ||
| program on child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault, including | ||
| the use of best practices and techniques to effectively recognize, | ||
| investigate, and document those cases. The training program must | ||
| consist of at least eight hours of instruction. | ||
| (b) The commission shall require an officer to complete the | ||
| training program unless the officer has completed the training | ||
| under Section 1701.253(q) or other training equivalent to the | ||
| training program as determined by the commission. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 1701.253(b-2), Occupations Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 5. Not later than January 1, 2024, the Texas | ||
| Commission on Law Enforcement shall establish the training program | ||
| required by Section 1701.272, Occupations Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 6. The minimum curriculum requirements under | ||
| Section 1701.253(q), Occupations Code, as added by this Act, apply | ||
| only to an officer who first begins to satisfy those requirements on | ||
| or after January 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
