Amend CSHB 2702 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 21.021, Property Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as 
follows:
	(a)  After the special commissioners have made an award in a 
condemnation proceeding, except as provided by Subsection (c) [of 
this section], the condemnor may take possession of the condemned 
property pending the results of further litigation if the 
condemnor:
		(1)  pays to the property owner the amount of damages 
and costs awarded by the special commissioners or deposits that 
amount of money with the court subject to the order of the property 
owner;
		(2)  deposits with the court either the amount of money 
awarded by the special commissioners as damages or a surety bond in 
the same amount issued by a surety company qualified to do business 
in this state, conditioned to secure the payment of an award of 
damages by the court in excess of the award of the special 
commissioners; [and]
		(3)  executes a bond that has two or more good and 
solvent sureties approved by the judge of the court in which the 
proceeding is pending and conditioned to secure the payment of 
additional costs that may be awarded to the property owner by the 
trial court or on appeal; and
		(4)  obtains from the court a writ of possession or 
other order entitling the condemnor to possession of the condemned 
property.
	(e)  Subsection (a)(4) does not apply to a condemnation by the 
Texas Department of Transportation.
	SECTION ____.  Section 21.021(a), Property Code, as amended 
by this Act, applies only to a condemnation proceeding the petition 
for which is filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  A 
condemnation proceeding the petition for which is filed before the 
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the 
time the petition was filed, and that law is continued in effect for 
that purpose.