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Amend SB 21 by adding the following sections to the bill, 
appropriately numbered, and renumbering existing sections 
accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 227.014, Transportation Code, as 
added by HB 3588, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 
2003, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection 
(a-1) to read as follows:
	(a)  If the commission determines that the mobility needs of 
this state would be most efficiently and economically met by 
jointly operating two or more facilities or combinations of 
different types of facilities financed or constructed as part of 
the same project as one operational and financial enterprise, it 
may create a system composed of those facilities or combinations of 
facilities.  The commission may create more than one system and may 
combine two or more systems into one system.  The commission may 
finance, construct, and operate an additional facility or 
combination of facilities as an expansion of a system if the 
commission determines that the facility or combination of 
facilities would most efficiently and economically be constructed 
and operated if the facility or combination of facilities [it] were 
a part of the system and that the addition will benefit the system.  
A system may only include facilities located wholly or partly 
within the territory of:
		(1)  a metropolitan planning organization; or                                 
		(2)  two adjacent department districts.                                       
	(a-1)  Subsection (a) does not prohibit the department from 
creating a system that includes a facility that extends 
continuously through the territory of:
		(1)  two or  more metropolitan planning organizations; 
or            
		(2)  more than two adjacent department districts.                      
	SECTION ____.  Section 227.023(c), Transportation Code, as 
added by HB 3588, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 
2003, is amended to read as follows:
	(c)  To the extent and in the manner that the department may 
enter into comprehensive development agreements under Chapter 361 
with regard to turnpikes, the department may enter into a 
comprehensive development agreement [agreements] under this 
chapter that provides for the financing, development, design, 
construction, or operation of a facility or a combination of [with 
regard to] facilities on the Trans-Texas Corridor.  All provisions 
of Chapter 361 relating to comprehensive development agreements for 
turnpikes apply to comprehensive development agreements for 
facilities under this chapter, including provisions relating to the 
confidentiality of information.  Claims arising under a 
comprehensive development agreement are subject to Section 
201.112.