Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered rider under the Article VII appropriations to the Texas Department of Transportation:

____. Contingency Rider: Elimination of Debt Financing. Contingent on the enactment and becoming law of HB 13 or similar legislation of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, prohibiting the issuance of certain obligations and other public securities by the Texas Transportation Commission, general revenue and state highway funds appropriated above for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2015, to the Texas Department of Transportation for debt service costs associated with the sale and issuance of new bonds and other public securities from state highway fund and highway improvement general obligation bond programs, as authorized by Section 49-n, Article III, Texas Constitution, as proposed by HJR 28, 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, and Section 49-p, Article III, Texas Constitution, respectively, are re-appropriated to the Texas Department of Transportation for the purpose of funding projects that would otherwise have been funded with proceeds from the sale and issuance of those bonds and other public securities during the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2015.