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Amend CSHB 3389 (Senate committee report) as follows:
                         (1)  Strike the following SECTIONS of the bill:
                                  (A)  SECTION 8, adding Section  1701.164, Occupations
               Code (page 4, lines 61-66);
                                  (B)  SECTION 24, amending Article 2.132(b), Code of
               Criminal Procedure (page 8, lines 19-53);
                                  (C)  SECTION 25, amending Article 2.134(b), Code of
               Criminal Procedure (page 8, lines 54-64);
                                  (D)  SECTION 28, providing transition language for the
               amendments to Articles 2.132(b) and 2.134(b), Code of Criminal
               Procedure (page 9, lines 40-47).
                         (2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to
               the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
                         SECTION ____.  Article 2.132, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
               amended by amending Subsections (a), (b), (d), and (e) and adding
               Subsection (g) to read as follows:
                         (a)  In this article:
                                  (1)  "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of the
               state, or of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision
               of the state, that employs peace officers who make motor vehicle
               [traffic] stops in the routine performance of the officers'
               official duties.
                                  (2)  "Motor vehicle stop" means an occasion in which a
               peace officer stops a motor vehicle for an alleged violation of a
               law or ordinance.
                                  (3)  "Race or ethnicity" means of a particular descent,
               including Caucasian, African, Hispanic, Asian, [or] Native
               American, or Middle Eastern descent.
                         (b)  Each law enforcement agency in this state shall adopt a
               detailed written policy on racial profiling.  The policy must:
                                  (1)  clearly define acts constituting racial
               profiling;
                                  (2)  strictly prohibit peace officers employed by the
               agency from engaging in racial profiling;
                                  (3)  implement a process by which an individual may
               file a complaint with the agency if the individual believes that a
               peace officer employed by the agency has engaged in racial
               profiling with respect to the individual;
                                  (4)  provide public education relating to the agency's
               complaint process;
                                  (5)  require appropriate corrective action to be taken
               against a peace officer employed by the agency who, after an
               investigation, is shown to have engaged in racial profiling in
               violation of the agency's policy adopted under this article;
                                  (6)  require collection of information relating to
               motor vehicle [traffic] stops in which a citation is issued and to
               arrests made as a result of [resulting from] those [traffic] stops,
               including information relating to:
                                           (A)  the race or ethnicity of the individual
               detained; and
                                           (B)  whether a search was conducted and, if so,
               whether the individual [person] detained consented to the search;
               and
                                           (C)  whether the peace officer knew the race or
               ethnicity of the individual detained before detaining that
               individual; and
                                  (7)  require the chief administrator of the agency,
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