Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In the bill pattern for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, amend Rider 7, Air Quality Planning, (page VI-19) as follows:

7.  Air Quality Planning. Amounts appropriated above include $6,000,000 for the biennium out of the Clean Air Account No. 151 in Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, for air quality planning activities to reduce ozone in areas not designated as nonattainment areas during the 2018-19 biennium and as approved by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). These activities may be carried out through interlocal agreements.

Expenditure of these funds are limited to: inventorying emissions, monitoring of pollution levels, and administration of the program. The TCEQ shall allocate $350,000 to each area and the remaining funds proportionally to each area with a population in excess of 350,000. Grants issued from appropriations identified in this rider should require that no more than 10 percent of the allocation be used for administrative purposes and prohibit the expenditure of the following: marketing and outreach activities, bicycle use programs, carpooling awareness, environmental awareness campaigns, and locally enforceable pollution reduction programs. The grant recipients shall channel the funds to those projects most useful for the State Implementation Plan (SIP).

For informational purposes, these areas may include, but are not limited to, Waco, El Paso, Beaumont, Austin, Corpus Christi, Granbury, Killeen-Temple, Longview-Tyler-Marshall, Alamo Area, and Victoria.