1. (a) The department shall provide training relating to medical and mental health care issues applicable to pregnant inmates to:

   1. (1) each correctional officer employed by the department at a facility in which female inmates are confined; and
   2. (2) any other department employee whose duties involve contact with pregnant inmates.

2. (b) The training must include information regarding:

   1. (1) appropriate care for pregnant inmates; and

   2. (2) the impact on a pregnant inmate and the inmate's unborn child of:

      1. (A) the use of restraints;
      2. (B) placement in administrative segregation; and
      3. (C) invasive searches.

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 123 (H.B. 650), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.