Amend CSSB 8 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, making an appropriation to the comptroller of public accounts (page 1, line 6), strike "$7,245,419,946" and substitute "$6,645,419,946".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill and cross-references to those SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS. The amount of $600,000,000 is appropriated to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice from money received by this state from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (42 U.S.C. Section 802) established under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) and deposited to the credit of the Coronavirus Relief Fund No. 325 to be used during the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act for the purpose of installing, operating, and maintaining air conditioning units with antiviral and pathology systems in prisons and detention facilities operated by the department, consistent with Strategy C.1.7, Institutional Operations and Maintenance, as listed in Chapter 1053 (SB 1), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021 (the General Appropriations Act). It is the intent of the legislature that the prisons and detention facilities maintain a temperature of not less than 65 or more than 85 degrees Fahrenheit.