Amend CSHJR 2 as follows:
      (1)  On page 2, line 7, strike "This" and substitute "The".
      (2)  On page 2, line 7, between "amendment" and "shall"
insert "adding Section 18(h), Article V, Texas Constitution,".
      (3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the
joint resolution and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the joint
resolution appropriately:
      SECTION ____. Section 18(b), Article V, Texas Constitution,
is amended to read as follows:
      (b)  Each county shall, in the manner provided for justice of
the peace and constable precincts, be divided into four
commissioners precincts, except that Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and
Tarrant counties shall each be divided into eight commissioners
precincts.  In <in> each precinct <of which> there shall be elected
by the qualified voters thereof one County Commissioner, who shall
hold his office for four years and until his successor shall be
elected and qualified. The County Commissioners so chosen, with the
County Judge as presiding officer, shall compose the County
Commissioners Court, which shall exercise such powers and
jurisdiction over all county business, as is conferred by this
Constitution and the laws of the State, or as may be hereafter
prescribed.
      SECTION ____.  The following temporary provision is added to
the Texas Constitution:
      TEMPORARY PROVISION.  (a)  This temporary provision applies
to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 77th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2001, to increase the number of county
commissioners in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Tarrant counties from
four to eight.
      (b)  Under that constitutional amendment, the Commissioners
Courts of Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Tarrant counties shall each
divide its county into eight commissioners precincts so that:
            (1)  the boundaries of the initial eight precincts can
take effect on January 1, 2003; and
            (2)  the four additional offices of county commissioner
that initially result from the division of the county into eight
commissioners precincts can be filled at the general election for
state and county officers held in November 2002.
      (c)  Of the persons elected to the four additional offices in
each county at the election in November 2002, two serve an initial
term expiring January 1, 2005, and two serve an initial term
expiring January 1, 2007.
      SECTION ____.  The proposed constitutional amendment amending
Section 18(b), Article V, Texas Constitution, shall be submitted to
the voters at an election to be held November 6, 2001.  The ballot
shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition:
"The constitutional amendment to increase the number of county
commissioners in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Tarrant counties from
four to eight."