Amend CSSB 1719 by adding the following Sections to read as
follows and renumbering the subsequent Sections appropriately:
SECTION ____. Section 103.052, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection
(a-1) to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a [A] person who
meets the requirements of Section 103.001 is entitled to
compensation in an amount equal to $50,000 [:
[(1) $25,000] multiplied by the number of years served
in prison, expressed as a fraction to reflect partial years [, if
the time served is less than 20 years; or
[(2) $500,000 if the time served is 20 years or more].
(a-1) A person sentenced to death who meets the requirements
of Section 103.001 is entitled to compensation in an amount equal to
$100,000 multiplied by the number of years served in prison,
expressed as a fraction to reflect partial years.
SECTION ____. Subsection (c), Section 103.105, Civil
Practice and Remedies Code, is repealed.
SECTION ____. (a) The change in law made by this Act to
Section 103.052, Civil Practices and Remedies Code, applies to an
administrative proceeding for compensation for wrongful
imprisonment for which the application is filed on or after the
effective date of this Act. An application filed before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date of the filing, and that law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
(b) The change in law made by this Act to Section 103.105,
Civil Practice and Remedies Code, applies to an action:
(1) commenced on or after the effective date of this
Act; or
(2) pending on that effective date and in which the
trial, or any new trial or retrial following motion, appeal, or
otherwise, begins on or after that effective date.
(c) In an action commenced before the effective date of this
Act, a trial, new trial, or retrial that is in progress on the
effective date is governed by the law applicable to the trial, new
trial, or retrial immediately before the effective date, and that
law is continued in effect for that purpose.