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	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Practice and Remedies Code, is repealed.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.