Bill Text: TX SB1676 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to educational and training requirements for certain peace officers on ethical decision making.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-04 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1676 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1676-Comm_Sub.html
By: Ellis | S.B. No. 1676 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 23, 2011, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
April 7, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 0; April 7, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to educational and training requirements for certain peace | ||
officers on ethical decision making. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1701.260 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1701.260. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON ETHICAL | ||
DECISION MAKING. (a) The commission by rule shall require an | ||
officer to complete an eight-hour training program on ethical | ||
decision making once during the year beginning on September 1, | ||
2012, and once every 24 months for the two Commission on Law | ||
Enforcement Officer Standards and Education training cycles | ||
beginning September 1, 2013. | ||
(b) The program described by Subsection (a) must be approved | ||
by the commission and shall be conducted by the governmental entity | ||
that employs the officer. The program must include education and | ||
training on: | ||
(1) identification of ethical dilemmas in law | ||
enforcement; | ||
(2) stress inoculation, de-escalation, and crisis | ||
management techniques; | ||
(3) principles of ethics and decision making in law | ||
enforcement as they relate to use of force; | ||
(4) public accountability and police professionalism; | ||
and | ||
(5) application in scenario-based ethical dilemmas. | ||
(c) A trainer of a course described by this section may use | ||
curriculum and instructional materials developed by the | ||
commission, a governmental entity conducting a course, and an | ||
entity that has a training agreement with the commission. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2011, the Commission | ||
on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education shall adopt the | ||
rules necessary to implement Section 1701.260, Occupations Code, as | ||
added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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