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Amend SB 1451 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1)  On page 11, strike line 1 and substitute the following:
SECTION 5.  Subdivisions (2) and (4), Section 34.01, Penal Code, are
(2)  On page 11, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following:
(2)  "Funds" includes:
(A)  coin or paper money of the United States or any other country that is designated as legal tender and that circulates and is customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in the country of issue;
(B)  United States silver certificates, United States Treasury notes, and Federal Reserve System notes;
(C)  an official foreign bank note that is customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in a foreign country and a foreign bank draft; and
(D)  currency or its equivalent, including an electronic fund, a personal check, a bank check, a traveler's check, a money order, a bearer negotiable instrument, a bearer investment security, a bearer security, a [or] certificate of stock in a form that allows title to pass on delivery, or a stored value card as defined by Section 604.001, Business & Commerce Code.