Bill Text: TX SB971 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to peace officer training on recognizing and recording circumstances that indicate strangulation in certain cases.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-20 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB971 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB971-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 971 | ||
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| relating to peace officer training on recognizing and recording | ||
| circumstances that indicate strangulation in certain cases. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1701.253(d), Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (d) Training in documentation of cases required by | ||
| Subsection (b) shall include instruction in: | ||
| (1) making a written account of the extent of injuries | ||
| sustained by the victim of an alleged offense; | ||
| (2) recording by photograph or videotape the area in | ||
| which an alleged offense occurred and the victim's injuries; [ |
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| (3) recognizing and recording a victim's statement | ||
| that may be admissible as evidence in a proceeding concerning the | ||
| matter about which the statement was made; and | ||
| (4) recognizing and recording circumstances | ||
| indicating that a victim may have been assaulted in the manner | ||
| described by Section 22.01(b)(2)(B), Penal Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 1701.352(f), Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (f) Training in documentation of cases required by | ||
| Subsection (b) shall include instruction in: | ||
| (1) making a written account of the extent of injuries | ||
| sustained by the victim of an alleged offense; | ||
| (2) recording by photograph or videotape the area in | ||
| which an alleged offense occurred and the victim's injuries; [ |
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| (3) recognizing and recording a victim's statement | ||
| that may be admissible as evidence in a proceeding concerning the | ||
| matter about which the statement was made; and | ||
| (4) recognizing and recording circumstances | ||
| indicating that a victim may have been assaulted in the manner | ||
| described by Section 22.01(b)(2)(B), Penal Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Not later than January 1, 2020, the Texas | ||
| Commission on Law Enforcement shall establish or modify training | ||
| programs as necessary to comply with Section 1701.253, Occupations | ||
| Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| (b) The minimum curriculum requirements under Section | ||
| 1701.253(d), Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, apply only | ||
| to a peace officer who first begins to satisfy those requirements on | ||
| or after January 1, 2020. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 971 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 4, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 971 passed the House on | ||
| May 3, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
