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Amend HB 1925 (house committee report) as follows:
(1)  Strike page 2, line 24, through page 4, line 14.
(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____.  Article 45.0941, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(b)  A defendant is presumed to be indigent or to not have sufficient resources or income to pay all or part of the fine or costs for purposes of Subsection (a), [or] (d), or (e) if the defendant:
(1)  is in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services, or was in the conservatorship of that department at the time of the offense; [or]
(2)  is designated as a homeless child or youth or an unaccompanied youth, as those terms are defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 11434a, or was so designated at the time of the offense; or
(3)  is convicted of an offense under Section 48.05, Penal Code.
(e)  A municipal court, regardless of whether the court is a court of record, or a justice court shall waive payment of all of a fine and costs imposed on a defendant convicted of an offense under Section 48.05, Penal Code, if the court makes the applicable determinations described by Subsections (a)(1) and (2) and (d)(1) and (2) with respect to the defendant.