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Amend CSSB 263 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Section 2, Article 
43.27, Code of Criminal Procedure (page 1, lines 33-34), between 
"The University of Texas School of Law" and "shall appoint", insert 
", the director of the innocence project at the University of 
Houston Law Center, or the director of the innocence project at the 
Texas Tech University School of Law, on a rotating basis".
	(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  (a)  The purpose of this section is to 
establish the rotating basis for appointments by law schools as 
required by Section 2, Article 43.27, Code of Criminal Procedure, 
as added by this Act.
	(b)  The president of the Texas Center for Actual Innocence 
at The University of Texas School of Law shall make the first 
appointment under Section 2, Article 43.27, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, as added by this Act.  After the expiration of the 
appointee's two-year term, the director of the innocence project at 
the University of Houston Law Center shall make the second 
appointment under Section 2, Article 43.27, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, as added by this Act.  After the expiration of the second 
appointment, the director of the innocence project at Texas Tech 
University School of Law shall make the third appointment.