HB3343 - Relating to the duties of peace officers investigating a family violence allegation or responding to a disturbance call that may involve family violence.

  89R2557 JCG-D     By: Ward Johnson H.B. No. 3343       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the duties of peace officers investigating a family   violence allegation or responding to a disturbance call that may   involve family violence.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Article 5.04, Code of Criminal Procedure, is   amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:           (c)     A peace officer who investigates a family violence   allegation or responds to a disturbance call that may involve   family violence shall, to the extent practicable under the   circumstances, physically separate the individuals at the scene and   conduct an interview of the potential victim in a manner that   prevents the suspect from intimidating the victim while the victim   is providing statements and other evidence to the investigating   peace officer, including, as practicable, by:                 (1)     preventing the suspect from being able to make eye   contact with the victim or make any other nonverbal communication   to the victim;                 (2)     placing the suspect and victim into separate   rooms, if both are detained indoors; and                 (3)     preventing the suspect from making verbal   communications to the victim by:                       (A)     placing the suspect at a distance from the   victim at which speech is not likely to be overheard or   intelligible; or                       (B)  using physical barriers.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.