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Amend CSSB 1283 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                      
	(1)  In existing SECTION 4 of the bill (page 2, line 38), 
strike "The change in law made by this Act applies" and substitute 
"Sections 20A.01 and 20A.02, Penal Code, as amended by this Act, 
apply".
	(2)  Insert the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS 
and renumber existing SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 125.002, Civil Practice and Remedies 
Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows:
	(f-1)  If the defendant required to execute the bond is a 
hotel, motel, or similar establishment that rents overnight lodging 
to the public and the alleged common nuisance is under Section 
125.0015(a)(6) or (7), the bond must also be conditioned that the 
defendant will, in each of the defendant's lodging units on the 
premises that are the subject of the suit, post in a conspicuous 
place near the room rate information required to be posted under 
Section 2155.001, Occupations Code, an operating toll-free 
telephone number of a nationally recognized information and 
referral hotline for victims of human trafficking.
	SECTION ____.  Section 125.045, Civil Practice and Remedies 
Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:

	(a-1)  If the defendant required to execute the bond is a 
hotel, motel, or similar establishment that rents overnight lodging 
to the public and the alleged common nuisance is under Section 
125.0015(a)(6) or (7), the bond must also be conditioned that the 
defendant will, in each of the defendant's lodging units on the 
premises that are the subject of the suit, post in a conspicuous 
place near the room rate information required to be posted under 
Section 2155.001, Occupations Code, an operating toll-free 
telephone number of a nationally recognized information and 
referral hotline for victims of human trafficking.
	SECTION ____.  Sections 125.002(f-1) and 125.045(a-1), 
Civil Practice and Remedies Code, as added by this Act, apply only 
to a suit filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  A suit 
filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 
in effect immediately before that date, and that law is continued in 
effect for that purpose.