Amend HB 8 (House Committee Printing) by adding the following 
appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ___. Article 26.13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended by Subsection (j) to read as follows:
	(j) No plea of guilty or plea of nolo contendere may be 
accepted by the court if the plea is entered with respect to a 
sexually violent offense and contains any provision that authorizes 
the destruction of evidence that has previously been subjected to a 
forensic analysis. For purposes of this subsection, "sexually 
violent offense" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.07, Penal 
Code.
	SECTION ___. Article 26.13(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, as 
added by this Act, applies to a plea entered on or after the 
effective date of this Act, regardless of when the offense that is 
the subject of the plea was committed.