Amend SB 318 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In the recital to SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, line 5), strike "436.202(b) and (c)" and substitute "436.202(a), (b), and (c)".

(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, immediately preceding amended Section 436.202(b), Government Code (page 1, between lines 6 and 7), insert the following:

(a)  From money appropriated for this purpose, the commission may make a grant to an eligible local governmental entity to:

(1)  enable the entity to match money or meet an investment requirement necessary to receive federal assistance provided to the local governmental entity for responding to or recovering from an event described by Section 436.201(b);

(2)  match the entity's contribution for a purpose described by Section 436.203 at a closed or realigned defense facility; [or]

(3)  construct infrastructure and other projects necessary to accommodate a new, [or] expanded, or retained military mission at a military base or to reduce the impact of an action of the United States Department of Defense that will negatively impact a defense facility located in or near the entity; or

(4)  construct infrastructure and other projects necessary to prevent the reduction or closing of a defense facility.

(3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 436.203(c), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c)  An eligible local governmental entity described by Section 436.201(a)(3), [or] (4), or (5) may use the proceeds of the grant to purchase or lease equipment to train defense workers whose jobs have been threatened or lost because of an event described by Section 436.201(b) or to train workers to support the mission at military installations or defense facilities.