Amend CSSB 8 as follows:
      (1)  In SECTION 3 of the bill (Committee Printing, page 1,
lines 45-49), strike amended Article 61.03(c), Code of Criminal
Procedure, and substitute the following:
      (c)  If a <A> local law enforcement <criminal justice> agency
compiles and maintains information under this chapter relating to a
criminal street gang, the agency may <not> send the information
<collected under this chapter> to the department if the governing
body of the municipality or county served by the local law
enforcement agency authorizes the agency to send the information <a
statewide database>.
      (2)  In SECTION 7 of the bill (Committee printing, page 2,
line 46), between the period and "Not", insert "(a)".
      (3)  In SECTION 7 of the bill (Committee printing, page 2,
between lines 65 and 66), insert the following:
      (b)  Not later than January 1, 2000, the governing body of
each municipality or county served by a local law enforcement
agency shall adopt a policy as provided by this subsection.  On or
after January 2, 2000, the governing body of an entity required to
adopt a policy under this subsection may amend the policy adopted
by the governing body as provided by this subsection. The policy or
amended policy must state whether the local law enforcement agency
is authorized to send or prohibited from sending information to the
Department of Public Safety as provided by Article 61.03(c), Code
of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act.  If the governing
body of a municipality or county fails to adopt a policy by January
1, 2000, as required by this subsection, the governing body may
nonetheless subsequently adopt a policy authorizing a local law
enforcement agency to send information to the Department of Public
Safety as provided by Article 61.03(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
as amended by this Act.