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	Amend CSHB 300 (house committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered ARTICLE to the bill and 
renumbering the remaining ARTICLES of the bill accordingly:

ARTICLE ____.  PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
	SECTION ____.01.  Sections 455.004(a), (b), and (c), 
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A public transportation advisory committee consisting 
of nine [11] members shall:
		(1)  advise the commission on the needs and problems of 
the state's public transportation providers, including the methods 
for allocating state public transportation money;
		(2)  comment on rules involving public transportation 
during development of the rules and before the commission finally 
adopts the rules unless an emergency requires immediate commission 
action;
		(3)  advise the commission on the implementation of 
Chapter 461; [and]
		(4)  perform any other duty determined by the 
commission; and        
		(5)  reflect the diversity of this state.                              
	(b)  The members [commission shall appoint members of the 
advisory committee.  The membership] of the committee shall be 
appointed by the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker 
of the house of representatives, who shall each appoint [include]:
		(1)  one member [four members] who represents
[represent] a diverse cross-section of public transportation 
providers;
		(2)  one member [three members] who represents
[represent] a diverse cross-section of transportation users; and
		(3)  one member [three members] who represents
[represent] the general public[; and
		[(4)  one member with experience in the administration 
of health and human services programs].
	(c)  A member serves at the pleasure of the officer who 
appointed the member [commission].  A member is not entitled to 
compensation for service on the committee but is entitled to 
reimbursement for reasonable expenses the member incurs in 
performing committee duties.
	SECTION ____.02.  The change in law made by this article to 
the public transportation advisory committee does not affect the 
entitlement of a member serving on the committee immediately before 
the effective date of this Act  to serve the remainder of the 
member's term.  The first two members whose positions expire or 
become vacant may not be replaced.