Amend CSSB 966 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, add proposed Subdivision (6), 
Section 22.021, Civil Practices and Remedies Code (page 2, between 
lines 20 and 21), to read as follows:
		(6)  "Violent offense" has the meaning assigned by 
Article 17.032(a), Code of Criminal Procedure.
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike proposed Subsection 
(a), Section 22.025, Civil Practices and Remedies Code (page 3, 
lines 7-21), and substituting the following:
	(a)  A journalist may be compelled to testify, produce, or 
disclose, any information, document, or item or the source of any 
information, document, or item obtained while acting as a 
journalist if the person seeking the testimony, production, or 
disclosure makes a clear and specific showing that the information, 
document, or item or the source of any information, document, or 
item:
		(1)  was obtained as the result of an eyewitness 
observation of criminal conduct by the journalist and a court 
determines by clear and specific evidence that the person 
requesting the testimony, production, or disclosure has exhausted 
reasonable efforts to obtain the information, document, or item 
from alternative sources;
		(2)  was obtained from any person who has confessed or 
admitted to the commission of a violent offense or to a crime 
against a child victim younger than 14 years of age at the time the 
offense was committed and a court determines by clear and specific 
evidence that the person requesting the testimony, production, or 
disclosure has exhausted reasonable efforts to obtain the 
information, document, or item from alternative sources;
		(3)  was obtained from any person from whom probable 
cause exists that the person has participated in a violent offense 
or in a crime against a child victim younger than 14 years of age at 
the time the offense was committed and a court determines by clear 
and specific evidence that the person requesting the testimony, 
production, or disclosure has exhausted reasonable efforts to 
obtain the information, document, or item from alternative sources;
		(4)  is reasonably necessary to stop or prevent 
reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm.