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Amend SB 1401 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 24, strike lines 6-11, and substitute the following:
and
(B) ["A report to law enforcement is not required, but if you make a report, law enforcement must first authorize the examination."; and
[(C)] "Call 1-800-656-HOPE to be connected to a
(2) On page 26, line 25, strike "The changes" and substitute "(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, the changes".
(3) On page 27, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following:
(b) Article 56A.306(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act, applies only to evidence of a sexual assault or other sex offense collected during a forensic medical examination conducted on or after September 1, 2019.