Amend CSSB 1717 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  In the recital to SECTION 4.05 of the bill (page 49, line 12), between "by" and "adding", insert "amending Subsection (a) and".

(2)  In SECTION 4.05 of the bill, before proposed Article 4.12(e), Code of Criminal Procedure (page 49, between lines 12 and 13), insert the following:

(a)  Except as otherwise provided by this article, a misdemeanor case to be tried in justice court shall be tried:

(1)  in the precinct in which the offense was committed;

(2)  in the precinct in which the defendant or any of the defendants reside; [or]

(3)  with the written consent of the state and each defendant or the defendant's attorney, in any other precinct within the county; or

(4)  if the offense was committed in a county with a population of 3.3 million or more, in any precinct in the county that is adjacent to the precinct in which the offense was committed.

(3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 4 of the bill and renumber the remaining SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Article 4.12(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this article, applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.