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Amend CSSB 60 (House committee printing) as follows:                         

(1)  In SECTION 10 of the bill, strike amended Subsection 	(a), Article 44.251, Code of Criminal Procedure (page 7, lines 
19-27), and substitute the following:
	(a)  The court of criminal appeals shall reform a sentence of 
death to a sentence of confinement in the institutional division of 
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life without parole if 
the court finds that there is legally insufficient evidence to 
support an affirmative answer to an issue submitted to the jury 
under Section 2(b), Article 37.071[, or Section 3(b), Article 
37.0711, of this code or a negative answer to an issue submitted to 
a jury under Section 2(e), Article 37.071, or Section 3(e), Article 
37.0711, of this code].
	(2)  In SECTION 11 of the bill, strike added Subsection (b), 
Article 44.2511, Code of Criminal Procedure (page 8, line 23, 
through page 9, line 2), and substitute the following:
	(b)  The court of criminal appeals shall reform a sentence of 
death to a sentence of confinement in the institutional division of 
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life if the court finds 
that there is legally insufficient evidence to support an 
affirmative answer to an issue submitted to the jury under Section 
3(b), Article 37.0711.