Amend HB 2006 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                        
	(1)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, immediately following added 
Section 2206.051, Government Code (page 5, between lines 26 and 
27), insert the following:
	(f)  This subsection applies only to an authority created 
under Chapter 451, Transportation Code, that operates in an area in 
which the principal municipality has a population of 1.9 million or 
more.  Notwithstanding any other law, an authority to which this 
subsection applies may not take private property through the use of 
eminent domain if the taking of the property is related to the 
construction of a segment of a fixed guideway transit system, 
including a light rail or bus rapid transit segment, authorized by 
the voters of the authority and:
		(1)  the planned route of the segment as approved in the 
ballot proposition submitted to the voters is changed by the 
authority after approval of the ballot proposition by the voters; 
or
		(2)  the ballot proposition submitted to the voters did 
not specifically describe the route of the segment.
	(g)  If a court in which a condemnation proceeding is 
initiated under Chapter 21, Property Code, determines that the 
condemnation proceeding was initiated in violation of Subsection 
(f), the court shall:
		(1)  determine that the condemnor does not have the 
right to condemn;
		(2)  dismiss the condemnation proceeding; and                          
		(3)  order the condemnor to pay all costs of the 
condemnation proceeding, including all reasonable attorney's fees 
incurred by the owner.
	(2)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, immediately following added 
Section 2206.103, Government Code (page 6, between lines 4 and 5), 
insert the following:
	(f)  This subsection applies only to an authority created 
under Chapter 451, Transportation Code, that operates in an area in 
which the principal municipality has a population of 1.9 million or 
more.  Notwithstanding any other law, an authority to which this 
subsection applies may not vote to authorize the initiation of 
condemnation proceedings under this section if the proposed 
condemnation proceedings are related to the construction of a 
segment of a fixed guideway transit system, including a light rail 
or bus rapid transit segment, authorized by the voters of the 
authority and:
		(1)  the planned route of the segment as approved in the 
ballot proposition submitted to the voters is changed by the 
authority after approval of the ballot proposition by the voters; 
or
		(2)  the ballot proposition submitted to the voters did 
not specifically describe the route of the segment.
	(g)  If a court in which a condemnation proceeding is 
initiated under Chapter 21, Property Code, determines that the 
condemnation proceeding was authorized or initiated in violation of 
Subsection (f), the court shall:
		(1)  determine that the condemnor does not have the 
right to condemn;
		(2)  dismiss the condemnation proceeding; and                          
		(3)  order the condemnor to pay all costs of the 
condemnation proceeding, including all reasonable attorney's fees 
incurred by the owner.
	(3)  In SECTION 17 of the bill, strike Subsection (b) (page 
16, lines 35-43) and substitute the following:
	(b)  Except as provided by this section, the changes in law 
made by Chapter 2206, Government Code, and Chapter 21, Property 
Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to a condemnation 
proceeding in which the petition is filed on or after the effective 
date of this Act and to any property condemned through the 
proceeding.  A condemnation proceeding in which the petition is 
filed before the effective date of this Act and any property 
condemned through the proceeding is governed by the law in effect 
immediately before that date, and that law is continued in effect 
for that purpose.
	(c)  Section 2206.051, Government Code, as added by this Act, 
applies to a condemnation proceeding in which the petition is filed 
on or after the effective date of this Act or a condemnation 
proceeding pending on the effective date of this Act in which the 
petition was filed on or after May 15, 2007.
	(d)  Section 2206.103, Government Code, as added by this Act, 
applies to a condemnation proceeding authorized or initiated on or 
after May 15, 2007.