Amend CSHB 278 as follows: (1) Insert the following appropriately numbered section of the bill to read as follows: SECTION ____. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended by adding Article 2.131 to read as follows: Art. 2.131. FIREARMS SEARCH. (a) A peace officer may in the scope of the officer's employment and duties and without a warrant search a person, or property in the immediate possession of the person, to determine if the person is possessing or carrying a firearm if the officer knows: (1) the identity of the person; (2) that the person is on probation under Section 54.04(d), Family Code, released under supervision under Section 61.081(a), Human Resources Code, or released on parole under Section 61.084(f) or (g), Human Resources Code; and (3) that the person is subject to a reasonable search by a peace officer as a condition of probation, release, or parole imposed under Section 54.046, Family Code, Section 61.085, Human Resources Code, or Section 30, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, as appropriate. (b) A peace officer is not required to have reasonable suspicion that the person is possessing or carrying a firearm to conduct a search under Subsection (a). (c) This section does not limit the authority of a peace officer to search a person if the search is otherwise authorized under state or federal law. (d) This section does not authorize a peace officer to search the residence of a person. (2) On page 1, line 13, after the period, insert the following: A person who is released on parole and prohibited from possessing, carrying, using, or exhibiting a firearm as a condition of release under this subsection is subject to a reasonable search by a peace officer as provided by Article 2.131, Code of Criminal Procedure. (3) Strike SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, line 22 through page 2, line 19). (4) On page 2, line 27, after the period, insert the following: A child who is placed on probation and prohibited from possessing, carrying, using, or exhibiting a firearm as a condition of probation under this subsection is subject to a reasonable search by a peace officer as provided by Article 2.131, Code of Criminal Procedure. (5) On page 3, line 18, after the period, insert the following: A child who is released under supervision and prohibited from possessing, carrying, using, or exhibiting a firearm as a condition of release under this subsection is subject to a reasonable search by a peace officer as provided by Article 2.131, Code of Criminal Procedure. (6) On page 4, lines 2-3, strike "(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, this Act takes effect immediately.". (7) On page 4, strike lines 10 and 11. (8) Strike SECTION 6 of the bill (page 4, lines 12 through 18) and substitute the following appropriately numbered section of the bill to read as follows: SECTION ____. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. (9) Renumber the sections of the bill accordingly.