Amend SB 552 (senate committee report) in SECTION 1 of the bill by striking added Article 42A.001(3-a), Code of Criminal Procedure (page 1, lines 23-32), and substituting the following:
(3-a) "Illegal alien" means an alien who:
(A) before the date of the commission of the offense:
(i) entered the United States without inspection or at any time or any place other than as designated by the United States attorney general; or
(ii) was admitted as a nonimmigrant and failed to maintain the nonimmigrant status under which the alien was admitted or to which it was changed under Section 248, Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1258), or to comply with the conditions of the alien's status; and
(B) did not attain and maintain legal status before the date of the commission of the offense.