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	Amend the Hamric amendment to CSHB 5 by striking the text of 

the amendment and substituting the following:

	(__)  Strike SECTION 1 of the bill, substitute the following 

appropriately numbered SECTION, and renumber subsequent SECTIONS 

of the bill accordingly:

	SECTION ____.  (a)  Section 154.021(b), Tax Code, is amended 

to read as follows:

	(b)  the tax rates are:                                                        

		(1)  $70.50 [$20.50] per thousand on cigarettes 

weighing three pounds or less per thousand; and

		(2)  the rate provided by Subdivision (1) plus $2.10 per 

thousand on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 

thousand.

	(b)  The changes in law made by this section do not affect tax 

liability accruing before the effective date of this Act.  That 

liability continues in effect as if this section had not been 

enacted, and the former law is continued in effect for the 

collection of taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of 

the liability for those taxes.