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Amend SB 766 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____.  Section 8.05(c), Penal Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c)  Compulsion within the meaning of this section exists only if the force or threat of force would render a reasonable person in the situation of the defendant [reasonable firmness] incapable of resisting the pressure.