Amend HB 1267 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                        
	(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to 
the bill and renumber the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill 
accordingly:
	SECTION __.  Article 26.051(a)(2), Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
		(2)  "Correctional institutions [Institutional] 
division" means the correctional institutions [institutional] 
division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
	SECTION __.  Article 26.051, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended by amending Subsections (d) and (h) and adding Subsection 
(i) to read as follows:

	(d)  A court shall:                                                   
		(1)  [may] notify the board if it determines that a 
defendant before the court is indigent and is an inmate charged with 
an offense committed while in the custody of the correctional 
institutions [institutional] division or a correctional facility 
authorized by Section 495.001, Government Code; and
		(2)  request that the board provide legal 
representation for the inmate.
	(h)  When the court appoints an attorney other than an 
attorney provided by the board:
		(1)  except as otherwise provided by this article, the 
inmate's legal defense is subject to Articles 1.051, 26.04, 26.05, 
and 26.052, as applicable; and
		(2)  the county in which a facility of the correctional 
institutions division or a correctional facility authorized by 
Section 495.001, Government Code, is located shall pay from its 
general fund the total costs of the aggregate amount allowed and 
awarded by the court for attorney compensation and expenses under 
Article 26.05 or 26.052, as applicable[, the county shall pay from 
its general fund the first $250.00 of the aggregate sum allowed and 
awarded by the court for the attorney fees under Article 26.05 of 
this code.  If the fees awarded for a court-appointed attorney in a 
case described by this subsection exceed $250.00, the court shall 
certify the amount in excess of $250.00 to the board.  On request of 
the board, the comptroller shall issue a warrant to the 
court-appointed attorney in the amount certified to the board by 
the court].
	(i)  The state shall reimburse a county for attorney 
compensation and expenses awarded under Subsection (h).  A court 
seeking reimbursement for a county shall certify to the comptroller 
of public accounts the amount of compensation and expenses for 
which the county is entitled to be reimbursed under this article.  
Not later than the 60th day after the date the comptroller receives 
from the court the request for reimbursement, the comptroller shall 
issue a warrant to the county in the amount certified by the court.
	SECTION __.  Articles 26.051(b) and (c), Code of Criminal 
Procedure, and Article 26.055, Code of Criminal Procedure, are 
repealed.
	SECTION __.  The change in law made by this Act to Article 
26.051, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies to compensation and 
expenses owed on or after the effective date of this Act to an 
attorney appointed under Article 26.051, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, regardless of whether the attorney was appointed before, 
on, or after the effective date of this Act.
	(2)  In SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, line 40), between "Act" 
and "applies", insert "to Article 26.05, Code of Criminal 
Procedure,".
	(3)  In SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, line 42), strike "as 
amended by this Act,".