Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) in Article VII of the bill, following the appropriations to the Department of Transportation (page VII-31), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Funding for Certain Flood Control Projects. (a)  Out of amounts appropriated above in Strategy B.1.2, Routine Maintenance, the Department of Transportation shall allocate $70,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2021, to provide funding for flood control projects designed to prevent flooding on roads or highways.

(b)  In allocating funds for flood control projects under Subsection (a) of this rider, the department shall give priority to a project affecting a road or highway that:

(1)  serves as an evacuation route; and

(2)  is located within 50 miles of the Gulf of Mexico and an international border.

(c)  In addition to other amounts appropriated by this Act and notwithstanding Sections 13.01 and 13.02 of Part 13, Article IX, of this Act, a total amount of $70,000,000 of any money made available under the following laws and subject to appropriation from the state treasury is reappropriated to the Department of Transportation to the extent consistent with conditions placed on the expenditure of that money by the federal government:

(1)  Section 5001, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) (42 U.S.C. Section 801);

(2)  Section 313, Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (Div. M, Pub. L. No. 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182 (2020), reprinted in note, 20 U.S.C. Section 3401); or

(3)  Section 2001, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2, 135 Stat. 4 (2021), reprinted in note, 20 U.S.C. Section 3401).

(d)  Out of money reappropriated by Subsection (a) of this rider, the Department of Transportation shall allocate $70,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2021, to provide funding for flood control projects designed to prevent flooding on roads or highways.

(e)  In allocating funds for flood control projects under Subsection (a) of this rider, the department shall give priority to a project affecting a road or highway that:

(1)  serves as an evacuation route; and

(2)  is located within 50 miles of the Gulf of Mexico and an international border.