Amend CSHB 3323 as follows:
      1.  Add appropriately numbered section to read as follows and
renumber the subsequent sections appropriately:
      SECTION _____.  Subdivision (1), Section 451.701,
Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:  (1)  "Advanced
transportation" means light rail, commuter rail, fixed guideways,
high occupancy vehicle lanes, high occupancy toll lanes, traffic
management <monitoring> systems, bus ways, bus lanes, bus transit,
transportation-related improvements and maintenance on or along
public ways on which the authority provides regular bus service,
and other advanced transportation facilities and services,
including operating costs, and management, planning feasibility
studies, and professional and other services in connection with
those facilities and services.
      SECTION _____.  Section 451.702, Transportation Code, is
amended by amending Subsections (a), (d) and (e), and adding
Subsection (f) to read as follows:
      (a)  The board of an authority in which the sales and use tax
is imposed at a rate of one-half of one percent and in which the
principle municipality has a population of more than 700,000 may
order an election to create an advanced transportation district
within the authority's boundaries and to impose a sales and use tax
for advanced transportation under this subchapter.  If approved at
the election, the rate of the sales and use tax for advanced
transportation may be set at a rate from one-eighth of one-percent
to one half of one percent in one-eighth increments as determined
by the board <is one-fourth of one percent>.
      (d)  At the election, the ballots shall be prepared to permit
voting for or against the proposition:  "The creation of an
advanced transportation district and the imposition of a sales and
use tax for advanced transportation within the district at the rate
of _______________ <one-fourth> of one percent."  The board shall
determine the rate of the tax prior to the preparation of the
ballots.
      (e)  The proceeds of the sales and use tax imposed under this
section shall be used <by the district> only for advanced
transportation purposes determined by the board, which may include
funds for the local share of federal or state grants for advanced
transportation purposes.
      (f)  Payments under Subsection (e)(2) shall be made quarterly
beginning the first day of the calendar quarter following the
quarter in which the authority receives the tax imposed under this
section.