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Amend CSHB 2020 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 3, line 18, between "defendant" and "failing", insert "intentionally".
(2) On page 3, line 21, strike "and".
(3) On page 3, line 24, between "disadvantaged" and the underlined semicolon, insert the following:
and has been demonstrated to produce results that are unbiased with respect to the race or ethnicity of defendants; and
(D) is designed to function in a transparent manner with respect to the public and each defendant to whom the tool is applied
(4) On page 5, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following appropriately lettered subsection and reletter subsequent subsections accordingly:
(____) A county may, as necessary, modify the validated pretrial risk assessment tool adopted under this article as necessary to ensure that the requirements of Subsection (h)(1) are being met and, as soon as practicable, shall provide notice of that modification to the Office of Court Administration.
(5) On page 5, line 14, following the underlined period, insert "The report must include a description of any modifications to the tool made by counties under this article and known to the commission at the time of the report.".