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

____. Commuter Rail Project. The Department of Transportation may not use any money appropriated by this Act:

(1)  for the construction of a local commuter rail project; or

(2)  to issue a grant to a political subdivision of this state for the construction of a local commuter rail project.