Amend the Pickett amendment to CSHB 300 as follows:                          
	(1)  Strike added Section 372.160, Transportation Code (page 
7, lines 7-17), and substitute the following:
	"Sec. 372.160.  TOLL PROJECT INFORMATION.  (a)  A local toll 
project entity may, notwithstanding Chapter 2113, Government Code, 
engage in marketing, advertising, and other activities to provide 
information relating to pending or operating toll projects, 
including providing information concerning the methods of paying 
and collecting tolls, and may enter into contracts or agreements 
necessary to procure marketing, advertising, or informational 
services from outside service providers.
	(b)  This section does not authorize a local toll project 
entity to engage in marketing, advertising, or other activities for 
the purpose of influencing public opinion about the use of toll 
roads or the use of tolls as a financing mechanism.".
	(2)  Insert the following appropriately numbered section in 
the bill and renumber the remaining sections of the bill 
appropriately:
	SECTION ____.____.  Section 372.160, Transportation Code, as 
added by this Act, applies only to a contract or agreement entered 
into or renewed by a local toll project entity on or after the 
effective date of this Act.  A contract or agreement entered into or 
renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 
in effect immediately before that date, and that law is continued in 
effect for that purpose.