Amend SB 1685 as follows: (1) In SECTION 3 of the bill, in added Section 436.106, Health and Safety Code, strike "unless the temperature abuse does not appear to be the possible cause of the illness." and substitute the following: if the temperature abuse is the probable cause of the illness. This section does not preclude closures for investigations conducted in accordance with the National Shellfish Sanitation Program that are necessary to protect public health. If a harvest area has been designated as a closed area because the investigation could not be completed within the time required in the National Shellfish Sanitation Program and temperature abuse is determined, as a result of the investigation, to be the probable cause of the illnesses, the harvest area must be immediately designated as an open area. (2) In SECTION 3 of the bill, strike added Section 436.107(b), Health and Safety Code, and substitute the following: (b) The council is composed of: (1) two members appointed by the board as nominated by the Texas Oyster Growers and Dealers association; (2) one member appointed by the board as nominated by the Coastal Oyster Leaseholder's Association; (3) two members appointed by the board from a list of oyster dealers who have held a shellfish certificate in this state for not less than six months of each of the three years preceding the nomination and who are certified at the time of appointment; (4) one representative appointed by the chairman of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference; and (5) three consumer members, including one person professionally licensed or with work experience in the field of environmental survey, environmental sanitation, environmental engineering, or a similar field related to environmental or pollution conditions and their effect on molluscan shellfish harvest areas, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives. (3) In SECTION 3 of the bill, in added Section 436.108, Health and Safety Code, insert a new Subsection (d) as follows and reletter the following subsections appropriately: (d) The Texas Oyster Council may meet at the request of the department, may meet periodically to review completed activities of the department, or may meet to review ongoing activities of the department if the department appears to have exceeded the guidelines established in the National Shellfish Sanitation Program. (4) In SECTION 3 of the bill, at the end of added Section 436.108, Health and Safety Code, insert a new appropriately lettered Subsection as follows: (_) A report produced by the Texas Oyster Council is public information.