Amend CSSB 604 (committee printing) as follows:                              
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Subsection (b), 
Section 22.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code (committee 
printing, page 1, line 43), strike "or (e)".
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Subsection (b), 
Section 22.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code (committee 
printing), strike page 1, lines 45-47, and substitute the 
following:

disclose in any official proceeding:                                   
		(1)  any confidential or nonconfidential information, 
document, or item legally obtained or prepared while acting as a 
journalist; or
		(2)  the source of any information, document, or item 
described by Subdivision (1).
	(3)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Subsection (c), 
Section 22.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, between 
"information," and "document," (committee printing, page 1, line 
49), insert "source,".
	(4)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Subdivision (1), 
Subsection (c), Section 22.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code 
(committee printing, page 1, line  55), strike "and".
	(5)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Subdivision (2), 
Subsection (c), Section 22.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code 
(committee printing, page 1, line 57), between "production" and 
".", insert the following:

; and                                                                  
		(3)  cannot reasonably be obtained from any alternate 
source         
	(6)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike proposed Subsection 
(e), Section 22.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code (committee 
printing, page 1, line 63, through page 2, line 5), and substitute 
the following:
	(e)  Notwithstanding Subsection (b), a journalist does not 
have a privilege in a criminal case against disclosure of:
		(1)  any information, document, or item obtained as a 
result of the journalist's eyewitness observation of criminal 
conduct involving physical violence, property damage, or breach of 
the peace, including any physical evidence or visual or audio 
recording of the observed conduct; or
		(2)  the source of any information, document, or item 
described by Subdivision (1).
	(7)  Strike SECTION 3 of the bill (committee printing, page 
2, lines 11-13) and substitute the following:
	SECTION 3.  Section 22.012, Civil Practice and Remedies 
Code, as added by this Act, and Article 38.11, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, as added by this Act, apply only to an official 
proceeding, as defined by Section 22.012, Civil Practice and 
Remedies Code, as added by this Act, that commences on or after the 
effective date of this Act.  An official proceeding held before, on, 
or after the effective date of this Act in a lawsuit that commences 
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 
effect on the date the lawsuit was commenced, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.