Amend CSSB 1173 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Chapter 509, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 509.017 to read as follows:
Sec. 509.017. SPECIAL ALLOCATION FOR CERTAIN DEFENDANTS PLACED ON STATE JAIL FELONY COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall adopt policies and procedures to:
(1) determine the cost savings to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice realized through the release of defendants on community supervision under Section 15(a)(2)(B)(ii), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure; and
(2) provide 30 percent of that cost savings to the division to be allocated to individual departments and used for the same purpose that state aid is used under Section 509.011.