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	Amend SB 909 on third reading as follows:                                    
	(1)  Strike proposed Sections 115.005 and 115.006, Health 
and Safety Code, as added by Floor Amendment No. ____by Coleman 
(Floor amendment No. ____, page 2, line 11, through page 3, line 
24), and substitute the following:
	Sec. 115.005.  POWERS AND DUTIES.  (a)  The center shall act 
as a clearinghouse for research and information relating to 
correctional public health and infectious disease issues.
	(b)  The center shall identify priorities for correctional 
health care providers, including  performing behavioral 
interventions,  performing health screenings, and providing 
immunizations.
	(c)  The center may work with state and local correctional 
health agencies, including the Correctional Managed Health Care 
Committee, in performing its duties.
	Sec. 105.006.  STAFF; AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT.  The center may 
hire staff or may contract with universities or other suitable 
entities to assist the center in carrying out the center's duties.
	(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS as appropriate.
	SECTION ____.  (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice 
shall contract with the University of Texas Health Science Center 
at Houston Institute for Health Policy to perform a study to provide 
research and recommendations regarding the prevention and 
reduction of communicable diseases in inmate populations that are 
most likely to come into contact with inmates in a correctional 
environment.
	(b)  The study should:                                                         
		(1)  identify and describe inmate public health threats 
such as HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis B and C, 
tuberculosis, other communicable diseases, and other results of 
substance abuse;
		(2)  emphasize overall public health preventative 
programs, including programs that focus on risk situations and 
risky behavior; and
		(3)  evaluate the cost of interventions and 
demonstration projects.         
	(c)  In conducting the study, the University of Texas Health 
Science Center at Houston Institute for Health Policy shall work 
with state and local correctional health agencies, including 
providers of correctional health care and the public health section 
of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
	(d)  The contract must require the University of Texas Health 
Science Center at Houston Institute for Health Policy to file with 
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice a report on  the results of 
the study, with research findings and recommendations, not later 
than December 1, 2008.  The health science center shall provide 
copies of the report to the legislature and the governor.