Amend SB 277 on third reading by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 1 of the bill and renumbering SECTIONS of ARTICLE 1 accordingly:

SECTION 1.____. (a) The stakeholder workgroup established in connection with the jail-based restoration of competency pilot program is abolished.

(b) Article 46B.073(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:

(e) Notwithstanding Subsections (b), (c), and (d) and notwithstanding the contents of the applicable order of commitment, in a county in which the department operates a jail-based restoration of competency pilot program under Article 46B.090, a defendant for whom an order is issued under this article committing the defendant to a mental health facility or residential care facility shall be provided competency restoration services at the jail under the pilot program if the service provider at the jail determines the defendant will immediately begin to receive services. If the service provider at the jail determines the defendant will not immediately begin to receive competency restoration services, the defendant shall be transferred to the appropriate mental health facility or residential care facility as provided by the court order. This subsection expires September 1, 2019 [2017].

(c) Subsections (c) and (o), Article 46B.090, Code of Criminal Procedure, are amended to read as follows:

(c) Not later than November 1, 2013, the commissioner of the department[, in consultation with a stakeholder workgroup established by the department as provided by Subsection (d),] shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the pilot program. In adopting rules under this article, the commissioner shall specify the types of information the department must collect during the operation of the pilot program for use in evaluating the outcome of the pilot program.

(o) This article expires September 1, 2019 [2017].

(d) Subsections (d) and (e), Article 46B.090, Code of Criminal Procedure, are repealed.