Amend CSHB 1 (house committee report) in Article V of the bill by adding the following appropriately numbered provision after the appropriations to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice:

____.  Additional Amounts for Reentry Programs Contingent on Cost Savings. If HB 272 or similar legislation of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, relating to mandatory supervision for inmates sentenced following a violation of a condition of community supervision becomes law and reduces the amount of expenditures required from general revenue funds appropriated to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2017, the amount of those savings is appropriated to the department for that biennium for Goal A, Provide Prison Diversions, to be used to establish research-based reentry programs for inmates confined by the department.