Amend CSSB 370, Section 366.031, on page 33 as follows:
                SUBCHAPTER B.  CREATION AND POWERS
                  OF REGIONAL TOLLWAY AUTHORITIES
      Sec. 366.031 CREATION AND EXPANSION OF A REGIONAL TOLLWAY
AUTHORITY.  (a)  Two or more counties, acting through their
respective commissioners courts, may by order passed by each
commissioners court, create a regional tollway authority under this
chapter if:
            (1)  one of the counties has a population of not less
than 500,000;
            (2)  the counties form a contiguous territory; and
            (3)  unless one of the counties has a population of 1.5
million or more, the commission approves the creation.
      (b)  <For an authority created under subsection (a), the
authority is automatically approved 180 days after it is created by
order of the respective commissioners courts, unless the commission
disapproves prior to the 180th day.>  The commission shall adopt
rules to implement the provisions of this section by March 1, 1998.
      (c)  A commissioners court may by resolution petition an
established authority for inclusion in the authority if the county
is contiguous to a county that initially created the authority.
      (d)  On approval of the board of an authority receiving a
petition under Subsection (c), the county becomes part of the
authority.