Amend SB 250 as follows:
      (1)  In SECTION 5 of the bill, strike Section 8(c)(1),
Article  42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure (Committee Printing page
3, lines 46 and 47), and substitute the following:
            "(1)  a first degree felony or a second degree felony
under Section 19.02, Penal Code (Murder);".
      (2)  In SECTION 5 of the bill, strike Section 8(c-1), Article
42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure (Committee Printing page 4, lines
5-17), and substitute a new Section 8(c-1) to read as follows:
      "(c-1)  For each prisoner not excluded under Subsection (c)
from release on parole, the parole panel shall review the prisoner
during the 30-day period preceding the date on which the calendar
time the prisoner has served plus any accrued good conduct time
equals the maximum term to which the prisoner was sentenced. The
parole panel, after evaluating the  prisoner, shall require the
prisoner to remain imprisoned unless the parole panel determines
that the release of the prisoner would not pose a significant
threat to public safety.  In determining whether the release of a
prisoner would not pose a significant threat to public safety, the
parole panel shall assign a significant weight to whether the
prisoner is serving a sentence that is 30 years or longer and to
evidence supporting an assertion that the prisoner has a history of
committing violent acts or sexual offenses, a history of
institutional misconduct, or  a history of making threats against
any person, particularly a threat made after the inmate was
imprisoned against a victim of the prisoner, a member of the
victim's family, or a witness in the case for which the prisoner
was sentenced.  The division shall prepare a preliminary report on
each prisoner eligible for release under Subsection (c) that
contains information determined by the division to be relevant to
whether the prisoner, under the criteria listed in this subsection,
poses a significant threat to public safety.  The division shall
provide to the board not later than the 30th day before the date
the prisoner is otherwise eligible for evaluation under this
subsection that information and a recommendation by the division of
whether or not the prisoner should be released after evaluation. <A
prisoner may not be released on mandatory supervision if a parole
panel determines that the prisoner's accrued good conduct time is
not an accurate reflection of the prisoner's potential for
rehabilitation and that the prisoner's release would endanger the
public.>  A parole panel that makes a determination under this
subsection <section> shall specify in writing the reasons for the
determination.  A determination under this subsection is not
subject to administrative or judicial review, except that the
parole panel making the determination shall reconsider the prisoner
for release on parole under this subsection <mandatory supervision>
at least twice each year <during the two years> after the <date of
the> determination."
      (3)  In SECTION 55 of the bill (Committee Printing page 29,
lines 60-64), strike Subsection (a) and substitute the following:
      "(a)  The change in law made by this Act to Subsection (c-1),
Section 8, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, permitting a
parole panel to deny release on parole under Subsection (c) to an
inmate who poses a significant threat to public safety, applies
only to:
            (1)  an inmate who on or after the effective date of
this Act is imprisoned while serving a sentence for an offense,
other than an offense described by, including an offense listed in,
Subsection (c), Section  8, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
Procedure, regardless of whether the offense was committed before,
on, or after the effective date of this Act; and
            (2)  an inmate who on or after the effective date of
this Act is imprisoned while serving a sentence for an offense
described by Subsection (c), Section 8, Article 42.18, Code of
Criminal Procedure, that was committed on or after August 29, 1977,
but before the date on which Subsection (c) was amended to exclude
a prisoner who committed the offense from release on parole under
that section."
      (4)  In SECTION 55 of the bill (Committee Printing page 29,
between lines 68 and 69), insert the following:
      "(c)  For the purposes of Subsection (a) of this section, a
second degree felony under Section 19.02, Penal Code, and a second
degree felony under Section 21.11, Penal Code, were described by
Section 8(c), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, beginning
September 1, 1993, consistent with the intent of the 73rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, as evidenced by the addition of
those offenses to Section 3g, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure, in Chapter 900, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 1993, effective on that date."