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H.B. No. 801
AN ACT
relating to training for Department of Family and Protective
Services personnel receiving reports of child abuse and neglect.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 261, Family Code, is
amended by adding Section 261.3016 to read as follows:
Sec. 261.3016. TRAINING OF PERSONNEL RECEIVING REPORTS OF
ABUSE AND NEGLECT. The department shall develop, in cooperation
with local law enforcement officials and the Commission on State
Emergency Communications, a training program for department
personnel who receive reports of abuse and neglect. The training
program must include information on:
(1) the proper methods of screening reports of abuse
and neglect; and
(2) ways to determine the seriousness of a report,
including determining whether a report alleges circumstances that
could result in the death of or serious harm to a child or whether
the report is less serious in nature.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 801 was passed by the House on April
5, 2005, by a non-record vote.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 801 was passed by the Senate on May 5,
2005, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
_____________________
Governor