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	Amend CSHB 13 (house committee printing) as follows:                         

(1)  Strike SECTIONS 1 and 2 of the bill and renumber 	subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly.
	(2)  Strike SECTION 5 of the bill and substitute the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION:
	SECTION ____.  Section 421.003, Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 421.003.  CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION; DATABASE 
MAINTENANCE.  (a)  The Department of Public Safety of the State of 
Texas is:
		(1)  the repository in this state for the collection of 
multijurisdictional criminal intelligence information that is 
about terrorist activities or otherwise related to homeland 
security activities; and
		(2)  the state agency that has sole [primary] 
responsibility to analyze and disseminate that information.
	(b)  Notwithstanding Section 421.002 or any other law, the 
Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas is the only state 
agency or state governmental entity that is authorized to develop, 
maintain, operate, and control access to the Texas Data Exchange or 
any other similar comprehensive intelligence database.