Amend HB 2931 (house committee report) in ARTICLE 6 of the bill by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to that article and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of that article accordingly:

SECTION 6.____. (a) Chapter 311, Government Code (Code Construction Act), applies to the construction of each provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure that is enacted under Section 43, Article III, Texas Constitution (authorizing the continuing statutory revision program), in the same manner as to a code enacted under the continuing statutory revision program, except as otherwise expressly provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(b)  A reference in a law to a statute or a part of a statute in the Code of Criminal Procedure enacted under Section 43, Article III, Texas Constitution (authorizing the continuing statutory revision program), is considered to be a reference to the part of that code that revises that statute or part of that statute.