Floor Packet Page No. 63
      Amend CSHB 1. as follows:
      In Article XI, under the appropriations to the Judiciary
Section, Comptroller's Department, add the following appropriately
numbered rider on page XI-62:
      _____.  CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION, NEW DISTRICT
COURTS. Contingent on the enactment of HB 400, Seventy-Sixth
Legislature, Regular Session, or similar legislation, the Judiciary
Section, Comptroller's Department is hereby appropriated out of the
General Revenue Fund $101,700 for fiscal year 2000 and $101,700 in
fiscal year 2001 for each additional district court created
effective September 1, 1999 and a pro rata amount out of the
General Revenue Fund for each additional district court created
with an effective date after September 1, 1999 pursuant to HB 400.