Bill Text: TX SB2480 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to training for peace officers on investigating criminal offenses involving elderly victims.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB2480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2480-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2480 |
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relating to training for peace officers on investigating criminal | ||
offenses involving elderly victims. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. 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 training | ||
program established under Section 1701.272. An officer shall | ||
complete the program not later than the last day of the first full | ||
continuing education training period that begins on or 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 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1701.272 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1701.272. TRAINING PROGRAM ON INVESTIGATING CRIMINAL | ||
OFFENSES INVOLVING ELDERLY VICTIMS. (a) The commission by rule | ||
shall require an officer to complete a one-time training program on | ||
investigating criminal offenses in which the victim or intended | ||
victim was 65 years of age or older at the time of the offense. The | ||
commission shall establish the training program required by this | ||
section. | ||
(b) The training program required by Subsection (a) must | ||
include: | ||
(1) procedures for reporting suspected abuse, | ||
neglect, or exploitation of an elderly person to the adult | ||
protective services division of the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services; and | ||
(2) material on identifying potential decision-making | ||
capacity impairments affecting an elderly victim. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 1701.253(q), Occupations Code, as added | ||
by this Act, applies only to a person who submits an application for | ||
a peace officer license under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, on or | ||
after January 1, 2024. A person who submits an application for a | ||
peace officer license under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, before | ||
January 1, 2024, is governed by the law in effect immediately before | ||
that date, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |