Amend CSHB 2702 (committee printing) by adding the following 
appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 2 of the bill and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION __.  Subchapter D, Chapter 227, Transportation Code, 
is amended by adding Section 227.047 to read as follows:
	Sec. 227.047.  ALTERNATIVE ACCESS TO SEVERED PROPERTY.  If 
the department acquires a tract for the Trans-Texas Corridor that 
severs an owner's real property, the department may allow the owner 
to build, in compliance with federal law, an alternative access 
between the severed tracts at a grade below the facilities 
constructed on the tract acquired by the department.  An owner must 
obtain department approval of the design specifications of the 
alternative access.