Bill Text: TX SB1402 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the composition, continuation, and duties of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force, compensation for task force members and certain other task force participants, and establishment of a mandatory training program for persons responding to reports of and treating survivors of child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1402-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the composition, continuation, and duties of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force, compensation for task force members and certain other task force participants, and establishment of a mandatory training program for persons responding to reports of and treating survivors of child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1402-Engrossed.html
By: Zaffirini, LaMantia | S.B. No. 1402 | |
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relating to the composition, continuation, and duties of the Sexual | ||
Assault Survivors' Task Force, compensation for task force members | ||
and certain other task force participants, 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, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (d) and (m) and adding Subsection (n) to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(d) The task force is composed of the following members: | ||
(1) the governor or the governor's designee; | ||
(2) a representative of each state agency that has | ||
duties relating to the prevention, investigation, or prosecution of | ||
sexual assault or other sex offenses or provides services to | ||
survivors, including: | ||
(A) the office of the attorney general; [ |
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(B) the Health and Human Services Commission; and | ||
(C) the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services; | ||
(3) the executive director of the Texas Commission on | ||
Law Enforcement or the executive director's designee; | ||
(4) the presiding officer of the Texas Forensic | ||
Science Commission or the presiding officer's designee; | ||
(5) the division director of the law enforcement | ||
support division of the Texas Department of Public Safety with | ||
authority over the Crime Laboratory Service or the division | ||
director's designee; | ||
(6) the president of the Texas Association of Crime | ||
Laboratory Directors or the president's designee; | ||
(7) the president of the Texas District and County | ||
Attorney's Association or the president's designee; | ||
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of Forensic Nurses Texas Chapter or the president's designee; | ||
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organization described by Section 264.409, Family Code, or the | ||
president's designee; | ||
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coalition, as defined by Section 420.003, or the president's | ||
designee; | ||
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agency appointed by the steering committee described by Subsection | ||
(c); | ||
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by the steering committee described by Subsection (c) to represent | ||
the interests of health care facilities that perform sexual assault | ||
forensic exams; | ||
(13) an adult survivor of child sexual abuse or the | ||
parent or guardian of a survivor of child sexual abuse; | ||
(14) a survivor of adult sexual assault; and | ||
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the steering committee described by Subsection (c). | ||
(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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(n) A task force member who is not employed by a state agency | ||
or an individual invited by the governor to participate in | ||
scheduled task force meetings is entitled to: | ||
(1) a per diem in the amount provided by the General | ||
Appropriations Act for each day the member performs duties as a task | ||
force member or the individual attends a task force meeting; and | ||
(2) reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses | ||
incurred in performing duties as a member or participant of the task | ||
force, as applicable. | ||
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 trauma-informed response 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. |