Amend CSHB 7 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTIONS to Article 6 of the bill and renumbering existing SECTIONS 
of the article accordingly:
	SECTION 6.__.  Section 508.047(b), Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Except as provided by Article 48.011, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, the [The] members of the board are not required to meet 
as a body to perform the members' duties in clemency matters.
	SECTION 6.__.  Chapter 48, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended by adding Article 48.011 to read as follows:
	Art. 48.011.  MEETINGS:  CAPITAL CASE.  (a)  In a capital 
case, the members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles shall perform 
the members' duties in clemency matters by meeting as a body or by 
participating in a telephone conference call as permitted by 
Section 551.124, Government Code.
	(b)  The board shall deliberate privately, but at the 
conclusion of deliberations each board member shall announce 
publicly the member's individual decision as to whether to 
recommend clemency and shall sign the member's name with the 
member's written recommendation and reasons for that 
recommendation.
	(c)  The board shall adopt rules as necessary to implement 
the requirements of this article.
	SECTION 6.__.  Section 551.124, Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 551.124.  BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES.  At the call of 
the presiding officer of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the board 
may hold a hearing on clemency matters by telephone conference 
call.  Other than the deliberations of the board, the proceedings at 
the telephone conference call hearing shall be recorded and made 
available to the public in the same manner as if the members of the 
board had met as a body to hold the hearing.
	SECTION 6.__.  (a)  The changes in law made by Sections 
6.___-6.___ of this Act apply only to a consideration by the Board 
of Pardons and Paroles regarding a clemency matter in a capital case 
that occurs on or after the effective date of this article.
	(b)  The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall adopt the rules 
required by Article 48.011(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, as added 
by this article, not later than March 1, 2004.