Amend SB 85 as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1, in amended Section 12.31(a), Penal Code,
(House Committee Printing, page 1, line 9) by striking "life," and
substituting "a term of not less than 40 years or more than 99
years, <life>".
(2) In SECTION 1, in amended Section 12.31(a), Penal Code,
(House Committee Printing, page 1, line 12) by striking "life" and
substituting "a term of not less than 40 years or more than 99
years <life>".
(3) In SECTION 1, in amended Section 12.31(b), Penal Code,
(House Committee Printing, page 1, line 16) by striking "life
imprisonment" and substituting "a term of not less than 40 years or
more than 99 years <life imprisonment>".
(4) In SECTION 1, in amended Section 12.31(b), Penal Code,
(House Committee Printing, page 1, line 20) by striking "life
imprisonment" and substituting "a term of not less than 40 years or
more than 99 years <life imprisonment> ".
(5) In SECTION 1, in amended Section 12.31, Penal Code,
(House Committee Printing, page 1, between lines 22 and 23), by
inserting the following:
(c) A reference in this code, the Code of Criminal
Procedure, or Chapter 508, Government Code, to "life" or "life
imprisonment", as distinguished from "life without parole" or "life
imprisonment without parole", means in the context of a capital
case a sentence of imprisonment of not less than 40 years or more
than 99 years in the institutional division.
(6) Add an appropriately numbered SECTION to read as follows
and renumber existing SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION __. Section 12.32(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(a) An individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the first
degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the institutional
division for <life or> for any term of not more than 99 years or
less than 5 years.