Amend SB 85 by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to
read as follows and by renumbering existing SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 508.145(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) An inmate serving a life sentence for a capital felony
is not eligible for release on parole until the actual calendar
time the inmate has served, without consideration of good conduct
time, equals:
(1) 25 calendar years, but only if the inmate since
imprisonment has been classified in the highest good conduct time
earning classification available to the inmate; or
(2) 40 calendar years, for an inmate serving a life
sentence for a capital felony other than an inmate described by
Subdivision (1).