Amend CSHB 351 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  (a) Article 42A.602(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  If a judge requires as a condition of community supervision or participation in a pretrial intervention program operated under Section 76.011, Government Code, or a drug court program established under Chapter 123, Government Code, or former law that the defendant serve a term of confinement in a community corrections facility, the term may not exceed 24 months.

(b)  Article 42A.604(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  As directed by the judge, the community corrections facility director shall file with the community supervision and corrections department director or administrator of a drug court program, as applicable, a copy of an evaluation made by the facility director of the defendant's behavior and attitude at the facility. The community supervision and corrections department director or program administrator shall examine the evaluation, make written comments on the evaluation that the director or administrator considers relevant, and file the evaluation and comments with the judge who granted community supervision to the defendant or placed the defendant in a pretrial intervention program or drug court program. If the evaluation indicates that the defendant has made significant progress toward compliance with court-ordered conditions of community supervision or objectives of placement in the [drug court] program, as applicable, the judge may release the defendant from the community corrections facility. A defendant who served a term in the facility as a condition of community supervision shall serve the remainder of the defendant's community supervision under any terms and conditions the court imposes under this chapter.

(c)  Section 509.001(1), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(1)  "Community corrections facility" means a physical structure, established by the judges described by Section 76.002 after authorization of the establishment of the structure has been included in a department's strategic plan, that is operated by the department or operated for the department by an entity under contract with the department, for the purpose of treating persons who have been placed on community supervision or who are participating in a pretrial intervention program operated under Section 76.011 or a drug court program established under Chapter 123 or former law and providing services and programs to modify criminal behavior, deter criminal activity, protect the public, and restore victims of crime. The term includes:

(A)  a restitution center;

(B)  a court residential treatment facility;

(C)  a substance abuse treatment facility;

(D)  a custody facility or boot camp;

(E)  a facility for an offender with a mental impairment, as defined by Section 614.001, Health and Safety Code; and

(F)  an intermediate sanction facility.

(d)  The change in law made by this section applies only to a person placed in a pretrial intervention program operated under Section 76.011, Government Code, for an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. A person placed in a pretrial intervention program operated under Section 76.011, Government Code, for an offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this subsection, an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was committed before that date.