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Amend CSHB 3689 (Senate committee printing), in ARTICLE 1 of 
the bill, by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to 
that ARTICLE and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of that ARTICLE 
accordingly:
	SECTION 1.___.  Sections 61.0451(a) and (i), Human Resources 
Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The office of inspector general is established at the 
commission for the purpose of investigating:
		(1)  crimes committed by commission employees, 
including parole officers employed by or under a contract with the 
commission; and
		(2)  crimes and delinquent conduct committed at a 
facility operated by the commission, [or at] a residential facility 
operated by another entity under a contract with the commission, or 
any facility in which a child committed to the custody of the 
commission is housed or receives medical or mental health 
treatment.
	(i)  The office of inspector general shall immediately 
report to the executive director [commissioner], the [advisory] 
board, the governor's general counsel, and the state auditor:
		(1)  any particularly serious or flagrant problem 
concerning the administration of a commission program or operation;
or
		(2)  any interference by the executive director,
[commissioner or] an employee of the commission, a facility 
described by Subsection (a)(2), or an officer or employee of a 
facility described by Subsection (a)(2) with an investigation 
conducted by the office.