Amend HB 2324 on 3rd Reading by adding a new SECTION to read
as follows and by renumbering existing SECTIONS accordingly:
      SECTION ____.  Section 497.051, Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      Sec. 497.051.  OVERSIGHT <WORK PROGRAM PLAN>.  (a)  The
prison industries advisory committee shall approve, certify, and
oversee the operation of private sector prison industries programs
in the department, the Texas Youth Commission, and in county
correctional facilities in compliance <shall establish policies for
the administration of a conditional work program that may employ
not more than 500 male and female work program residents. The
policies must include a work program contract that includes an
agreement by the resident to contribute from the wages received by
the resident for the resident's participation in private industry
employment a percentage of the wages, in accordance with rules
adopted by the board to comply> with the federal prison enhancement
certification program established under 18 U.S.C. Section 1761<,
and a percentage of the wages for:>
            <(1)  costs of supervision;>
            <(2)  restitution to the victim or victims of the
resident; and>
            <(3)  savings to be retained for the resident in a
designated account for the resident's benefit and receipt on
release.>
      <(b)  This subchapter does not restore in whole or in part the
civil rights of a work program resident.>
      <(c)  A work program resident employed under this subchapter
is not subject to workers' compensation laws, and the resident and
the resident's beneficiaries may not receive compensation under
those laws, except that a private industry may provide workers'
compensation benefits to a resident and a resident's beneficiaries
as necessary to certify a work program operated by the industry as
a work pilot project described in 18 U.S.C. Section 1761>.