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	Amend CSSB 909 (house committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____. (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice 
shall conduct a study regarding:
		(1) the number of inmates confined in facilities 
operated by or under contract with the department who pose no 
significant risk of recidivism or danger to society due to the:
			(A) inmate's age or health;                                                  
			(B) nature of the crime committed by the inmate; 
or                        
			(C) reasonably successful rehabilitation of the 
inmate while incarcerated; 
		(2) alternatives to confining inmates described by 
Subdivision (1) in a facility operated by or under contract with the 
department;
		(3) to the extent permitted by federal law, the 
possibility of conducting a prisoner exchange with the United 
Mexican States or another foreign country in which foreign 
nationals in the custody of the department are exchanged for United 
States citizens incarcerated in another country; and
		(4) measures that the department can take to assure that 
inmates sent to a foreign country under a prisoner exchange 
described by Subdivision (3) will not be released early.
	(b) The department shall submit a report to the members of the 
81st Legislature regarding the results of the study conducted under 
Subsection (a).