Amend CSHB 300 (Senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In ARTICLE 2 of the bill, add the following SECTIONS,
appropriately numbered, and renumber existing SECTIONS of that
article accordingly:
SECTION 2.__. Section 201.710(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The department shall include projects related to ports
of entry in its project development program, or its successor
document [unified transportation program or any successor to that
program].
SECTION 2.__. Section 227.034(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A contract for the acquisition, construction,
maintenance, or operation of a facility on the Trans-Texas Corridor
may not contain a provision that limits or prohibits construction
or operation of a highway or other transportation project that is:
(1) included in the project development program, or
its successor document, [unified transportation program] of the
department in effect at the time the contract is executed;
(2) a project of a local government; or
(3) constructed or operated for the safety of
pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
SECTION 2.__. Section 228.0055(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The commission or the department may not:
(1) revise the formula as provided in the department's
project development [unified transportation] program, or its
successor document, in a manner that results in a decrease of a
department district's allocation because of a payment under
Subsection (a); or
(2) take any other action that would reduce funding
allocated to a department district because of payments received
under a comprehensive development agreement.
SECTION 2.__. Section 228.006(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The commission may not revise the formula as provided in
the department's project development [unified transportation]
program, or its successor document, in a manner that results in a
decrease of a district's allocation because of a payment under
Subsection (a).
SECTION 2.__. Section 228.117, Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 228.117. FUNDING FOR DEPARTMENT DISTRICT. The
commission may not revise the formula as provided in the
department's project development [unified transportation] program,
or its successor document, in a manner that results in a decrease of
a district's allocation because revenue bonds are issued for a toll
project located within the department district.
SECTION 2.__. Section 362.902, Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 362.902. INCLUSION OF TOLL PROJECTS IN PROJECT
DEVELOPMENT [UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION] PROGRAM. The department
shall adopt and include in the project development [unified
transportation] program, or its successor document, of the
department a list of transportation projects in each department
district that the department considers to be eligible and feasible
for tolling. A transportation project that is included in the list
is not required to be operated as a toll project.
SECTION 2.__. Section 366.407(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) An authority may enter into a comprehensive development
agreement under this subchapter with a private participant only if
the project is identified in the department's project development
[unified transportation] program, or its successor document, or is
located on a transportation corridor identified in the statewide
transportation plan.
(2) In SECTION 19.04 of the bill, amended Section
201.616(a), Transportation Code (page 83, line 2), strike "unified
transportation program" and substitute "project development
program, or its successor document, [unified transportation
program]".
(3) In SECTION 19.09 of the bill, amended Section
223.208(c), Transportation Code (page 84, line 3), strike "unified
transportation program" and substitute "project development
program, or its successor document, [unified transportation
program]".
(4) In SECTION 31.02 of the bill, amended Section
228.012(d), Transportation Code (page 114, line 5), strike "unified
transportation program" and substitute "project development
[unified transportation]".