Floor Packet No. 44
                Texas Department of Transportation
                    Proposed Rider and Funding
                   Sound Barrier Retro-Fit Walls
      Amend CSHB 1 as follows in Article VII, add the following
amendment to be appropriately numbered and inserted into the
appropriate section Article VII.
      Appropriate $2.5 million dollars from the special Fund
Balances from General Revenue Account 029, Traffic Safety, and
General Revenue Account 451, Public Transportation, during the
2000-01 biennium to create sound barrier retro-fit walls along the
north side of Interstate 610 in Houston, from a point on the west
side of Yale at its intersection with Interstate 610 extending
appoximately 2-1/2 miles to the west to a point located on the east
side of East T.C. Jester at its intersection with Interstate 610,
from funds remaining as of August 31, 1999 and prior to being
transferred to the State Highway Fund No. 006.