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	Amend CSSB 6 in Article 1 of the bill, by adding the following 
appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the subsequent 
SECTIONS in that article accordingly:
	SECTION 1.__.  Section 262.2015(b), Family Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(b)  The court may find under Subsection (a) that a parent has 
subjected the child to aggravated circumstances if:
		(1)  the parent abandoned the child without 
identification or a means for identifying the child;
		(2)  the child is a victim of serious bodily injury or 
sexual abuse inflicted by the parent or by another person with the 
parent's consent;
		(3)  the parent has engaged in conduct against the child 
that would constitute an offense under the following provisions of 
the Penal Code:
			(A)  Section 19.02 (murder);                                                 
			(B)  Section 19.03 (capital murder);                                         
			(C)  Section 19.04 (manslaughter);                                           
			(D)  Section 21.11 (indecency with a child);                                 
			(E)  Section 22.011 (sexual assault);                                        
			(F)  Section 22.02 (aggravated assault);                                     
			(G)  Section 22.021 (aggravated sexual assault);                             
			(H)  Section 22.04 (injury to a child, elderly 
individual, or disabled individual);
			(I)  Section 22.041 (abandoning or endangering 
child);                     
			(J)  Section 25.02 (prohibited sexual conduct);                              
			(K)  Section 43.25 (sexual performance by a 
child); or                     
			(L)  Section 43.26 (possession or promotion of 
child pornography);         
		(4)  the parent voluntarily left the child alone or in 
the possession of another person not the parent of the child for at 
least six months without expressing an intent to return and without 
providing adequate support for the child;
		(5)  the parent's parental rights with regard to another 
child have been involuntarily terminated based on a finding that 
the parent's conduct violated Section 161.001(1)(D) or (E) or a 
substantially equivalent provision of another state's law; [or]
		(6)  the parent has been convicted for:                                       
			(A)  the murder of another child of the parent and 
the offense would have been an offense under 18 U.S.C. Section 
1111(a) if the offense had occurred in the special maritime or 
territorial jurisdiction of the United States;
			(B)  the voluntary manslaughter of another child 
of the parent and the offense would have been an offense under 18 
U.S.C. Section 1112(a) if the offense had occurred in the special 
maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States;
			(C)  aiding or abetting, attempting, conspiring, 
or soliciting an offense under Subdivision (A) or (B); or 
			(D)  the felony assault of the child or another 
child of the parent that resulted in serious bodily injury to the 
child or another child of the parent; or
		(7)  the parent's parental rights with regard to two 
other children have been involuntarily terminated.