Bill Text: TX HB920 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for counselors for battering intervention and prevention programs in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-19 - Referred to Human Services [HB920 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB920-Introduced.html
| 83R4370 NC-D | ||
| By: N. Gonzalez of El Paso | H.B. No. 920 | |
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| relating to the qualifications for counselors for battering | ||
| intervention and prevention programs in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 5, Article 42.141, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A person who provides direct battering intervention | ||
| counseling services to a batterer for a program located in a county | ||
| with a population of more than 50,000 must be licensed as a social | ||
| worker, professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, or | ||
| psychologist or a licensed physician who is board certified in | ||
| psychiatry. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2014. | ||
