By: Howard H.B. No. 53
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
 
  relating to appropriating money to the Texas Department of
  Transportation for the purpose of construction of, maintenance of,
  and acquisition of rights-of-way for certain public roadways.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  In addition to amounts appropriated to the Texas
  Department of Transportation by Senate Bill No. 1, Acts of the 83rd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 (the General Appropriations
  Act), the amount of $2,000,000,000 is appropriated out of the
  economic stabilization fund to the department for the state fiscal
  biennium ending August 31, 2015, for the purpose of construction
  of, maintenance of, and acquisition of rights-of-way for public
  roadways other than toll roads.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2014, but only
  if:
               (1)  the constitutional amendment proposed by House
  Joint Resolution No. 1, Senate Joint Resolution No. 1, or similar
  legislation of the 83rd legislature, 2nd Called Session, 2013, is
  not approved by the voters; and
               (2)  this Act receives a vote of two-thirds of the
  members present in each house of the legislature, as provided by
  Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution.