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	Amend HB 300 on third reading as follows:                                    
	(1) In Subchapter E, Chapter 223, Transportation Code, as 
redesignated, renumbered, and amended as Subchapter E, Chapter 371, 
Transportation Code, on second reading by Floor Amendment No. 134 
by Phillips, following Section 223.209, Transportation Code, as 
redesignated, renumbered, and amended as Section 371.309, 
Transportation Code, add the following:
	Sec. 371.310.  APPLICABILITY.  Notwithstanding any provision 
of this subchapter to the contrary, a restriction on the department 
in connection with a comprehensive development agreement, applies 
equally to a toll project entity.
	(2) Amend Section 201.211, Transportation Code, as added by 
CSHB 300, on page 8, as follows:
	(a) On line 12, strike "or a department employee", and 
substitute, ", the governing body of a toll project entity, as 
defined by Chapter 371, or an employee of the department or a toll 
project entity".
	(b) On line 13, between "department's" and "control", insert 
"or the toll project entity's".
	(3) Amend Section 223.213, Transportation Code, as added by 
Floor Amendment No. 70 by Farrar, by redesignating that section as 
371.312, Transportation Code, and amending that section to read as 
follows:
	Sec. 371.312. PROHIBITION AGAINST NONCOMPETITION  
PROVISIONS. Notwithstanding Section 371.103(b), a toll project 
entity may not enter into a comprehensive development agreement for 
a toll project, including a managed lane, that contains a provision 
that limits or prohibits the construction, reconstruction, 
expansion, rehabilitation, operation, or maintenance of a 
nontolled highway by the toll project entity or a provision that 
requires the toll project entity to reimburse a private entity for 
the loss of toll revenue attributable to the construction of a 
nontolled highway.
	(4) Amend Section 223.214, Transportation Code, as added by 
Floor Amendment No. 63 by Rodriguez, by redesignating that section 
as 371.311, Transportation Code.
	(5) (a) Amend Section 223.0043, Transportation Code, as added 
by Floor Amendment No. 61 by Moody, by redesignating that section as 
371.313, Transportation Code, and amending added Subsections (d), 
(e), and (f) to read as follows:
	(d) A business entity that has not made a political 
contribution or a lobbying expenditure that must be disclosed under 
Subsection (c) shall, within the time prescribed by that 
subsection, deliver to the chief administrative officer of the 
applicable toll project entity or the that officer's designee a 
written statement that the business entity has not made a political 
contribution or lobbying expenditure that must be disclosed.
	(e) On receipt of information under Subsection (c) or (d), 
the toll project entity shall promptly publish the information on 
the entity's Internet website.
	(f) A toll project entity may not consider a bid submitted by 
a business entity that does not comply with this section.
	(b) Add a new SECTION to the bill, appropriately numbered, to 
read as follows and renumbering sections accordingly:
	SECTION ____. Section 371.313, Transportation Code, as added 
by this Act, applies only to a bid submitted for a contract as to 
which the initial notice is published on or after September 1, 2009.