Amend CSSB 17 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                        
	(1)   In SECTION 19 of the bill (page 11, line 33), between 
"19." and "The" insert "(a)".

	(2)   In SECTION 19 of the bill (page 11, between lines 39 and 
40), insert:
	(b)  For the purposes of the application of Section 
228.0111(g)(1) or (i)(1), Transportation Code, under Subsection 
(a) of this section to the State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway) project, 
the local toll project entity or the department, as applicable, 
must enter into a contract for the construction of at least one 
segment of the project in the two-year period described by 
Subsection (g)(1) or (i)(1).  For each of the remaining segments, if 
the department and a local toll project entity have entered into an 
agreement for the advance funding of the initial segment, a local 
toll project entity or the department, as applicable, is not 
required to enter into a construction contract for any remaining 
segment before the second anniversary of the date a construction 
contract for a segment contiguous to that remaining segment has 
been entered into.