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	Amend SB 909 on third reading by adding the following 
appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subsection (a), Article 15.19, Code of 
Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  If the arrested person [accused] fails or refuses to 
give bail, as provided in [the preceding] Article 15.18, the 
arrested person [he] shall be committed to the jail of the county 
where the person [he] was arrested; and the magistrate committing 
the arrested person [him] shall immediately provide notice to
[notify] the sheriff of the county in which the offense is alleged 
to have been committed regarding:
		(1)  [of] the arrest and commitment, which notice may 
be given by telegraph, [by] mail, or [by] other written means; and
		(2)  whether the person was also arrested under a 
warrant issued under Section 508.251, Government Code [notice].
	SECTION ____.  Article 15.20, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Art. 15.20.  DUTY OF SHERIFF RECEIVING 
NOTICE.  (a)  Subject to Subsection (b), the [The] sheriff 
receiving the notice of arrest and commitment under Article 15.19
shall forthwith go or send for the arrested person [prisoner] and 
have the arrested person [him] brought before the proper court or 
magistrate.
	(b)  A sheriff who receives notice under Article 15.19(a)(2) 
of a warrant issued under Section 508.251, Government Code, shall 
have the arrested person brought before the proper magistrate or 
court before the 11th day after the date the person is committed to 
the jail of the county in which the person was arrested.
	SECTION ____.  Article 15.21, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Art. 15.21.  PRISONER DISCHARGED IF NOT TIMELY DEMANDED.  If 
the proper office of the county where the offense is alleged to have 
been committed does not demand the arrested person [prisoner] and 
take charge of the arrested person before the 11th day after the 
date the person [him within ten days from the day he] is committed 
to the jail of the county in which the person is arrested, the 
arrested person [such prisoner] shall be discharged from custody.
	SECTION ____.  The change in law made by this Act to Articles 
15.19(a), 15.20, and 15.21, Code of Criminal Procedure, apply only 
to a person who, on or after the effective date of this Act, is 
arrested under a warrant, regardless of the date on which the 
warrant under which the person is arrested was issued.