Tex. Gov't Code § 493.032 · Chapter 493. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ORGANIZATION
CORRECTIONAL OFFICER TRAINING RELATED TO PREGNANT INMATES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall provide training relating to medical and mental health care issues applicable to pregnant inmates to:
(1) each correctional officer employed by the department at a facility in which female inmates are confined; and
(2) any other department employee whose duties involve contact with pregnant inmates.
(b) The training must include information regarding:
(1) appropriate care for pregnant inmates; and
(2) the impact on a pregnant inmate and the inmate's unborn child of:
(A) the use of restraints;
(B) placement in administrative segregation; and
(C) invasive searches.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 123 (H.B. 650), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.493.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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