Amend CSSB 1420 (house committee printing) by inserting the following appropriately-numbered SECTION and renumbering any subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____. Subchapter Z, Chapter 311, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 311.905 to read as follows:

Sec. 311.905. NOTICE OF TRANSPORTATION USER'S FEE BY MUNICIPALITY. (a) A municipality that imposes a fee on the user of a benefited property equal to the prorated annual cost of the transportation system owned by the municipality that can reasonably be attributed to the benefited property must provide notice to the department and the user of the fee.

(b) The notice to the department shall be given to the executive director by any commercially acceptable form of business communication. The notice to the user required under Subsection (a) is adequate if the fee amount is stated on monthly billing statements to the user for metered utility service provided by the municipality to the user.