Amend proposed CSHB 300, in ARTICLE ____ of the bill, by 
adding the following SECTIONS, appropriately numbered, and 
renumbering existing SECTIONS in ARTICLE ____ accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Chapter 472, Transportation Code, is amended 
by adding a new section 472.01355 to read as follows:
	Sec. 472.03155.  POLICY BOARD MEMBERSHIP AND VOTING 
REQUIREMENTS IN POPULOUS COUNTIES; ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE 
ALLOCATION OF FUNDING.  (a)  This section applies only to a 
metropolitan planning organization that serves a county with a 
population of 3.3 million or more.
	(b)  To be eligible to receive funds from this state for 
transportation projects under Section 201.668:
		(1)  at least 50 percent of a metropolitan planning 
organization's policy board members must be elected officials who 
are elected in the boundaries of the metropolitan planning 
organization; and
		(2)  except as provided in Section 472.03166, only 
elected officials may be voting members of the organization's 
policy board.
	(c)  A metropolitan planning organization that is not 
eligible under Subsection (b) may redesignate the board so as to 
become eligible to receive an allocation of funds under Section 
201.668.
	(d)  In this section, "elected official" means the presiding 
officer or a member of the governing body of a municipality, a 
county judge, a county commissioner, a state representative, or a 
state senator.
	SECTION ____.  Chapter 472, Transportation Code, is amended 
by adding a new section 472.01366 to read as follows:
	Sec. 472.03166.  REPRESENTATION IN POPULOUS COUNTIES AND 
CITIES.  For a metropolitan planning organization that serves a 
county with a population of 3.3 million or more, the counties and 
municipalities of that metropolitan planning organization may 
designate one or more non-elected officials to serve on the policy 
board and such persons may be provided voting membership.  If the 
metropolitan area of such metropolitan planning organization is 
served by authorities or other agencies that have been or may be 
created by law to perform transportation functions and are 
performing transportation functions, the authorities or other 
agencies may be provided voting membership on the policy board 
regardless of whether the authorities or agencies are also under 
the jurisdiction of a municipality or county represented on the 
metropolitan planning organization.