Amend Floor Amendment No. 235 by Hughes to CSHB 1 (page 290 of the prefiled amendment packet) by striking the text of the amendment and substituting the following:

Amend CSHB 1 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered rider in Article VII after the appropriations to the Department of Transportation:

____.  Light Rail or Commuter Rail Project. (a) The Department of Transportation may not use any state funds appropriated by this Act:

(1)  for the planning, acquisition, financing, development, construction, or operation of a light rail or local commuter rail project; or

(2)  to issue a grant to a political subdivision of this state for a purpose described by Subdivision (1) of this rider.

(b)  Subsection (a) of this rider does not apply to a light rail or local commuter rail project grant:

(1)  approved by the Texas Transportation Commission before March 1, 2015; and

(2)  that authorizes participation in the development and delivery of the light rail or local commuter rail project.