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Amend CSHB 460 (house committee report) on page 1, after line 24, by adding the following appropriately numbered subdivision:
(___) The requirement under Subdivision (1)(B) that an officer attempt to obtain a warrant from a magistrate serving a criminal court in the county in which the suspect was stopped does not apply if:
(A) in the county in which the stop occurred:
(i) there is a not a person described by Section 724.017(a), Transportation Code, available to take the specimen; or
(ii) a person described by Section 724.017(a) is available, but no place described by Section 724.017(a-1) is available; and
(B) in the contiguous county from which the warrant is sought, a person described by Section 724.017(a) and a place described by Section 724.017(a-1) are available.