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Amend CSSB 1678 (house committee printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  Strike the last sentence of SECTION 21 (page 14, line 27 
through page 15, line 2, and substitute the following:
	"The governor shall appoint as new members at least three 
persons who:       
		(1)  have never been employed by the Texas Department of 
Criminal Justice; and
		(2)  were serving on the Board of Pardons and Paroles on 
May 1, 2003 or on that date had been nominated for board membership 
and were awaiting confirmation.
	(2)  Add an appropriately numbered SECTION to read as 
follows:               
	SECTION _____.  It is the intent of the legislature that 
members serving on the Board of Pardons and Paroles on May 1, 2003, 
be offered the first opportunity to be hired as parole 
commissioners employed under Chapter 508, Government Code, as 
amended by this Act.