Floor Packet Page No. 4 Amend CSHJR 4 as follows: (1) In SECTION 1, strike added subsection (b) to section 1, Article VII, Texas Constitution (page 1, lines 16-24, through page 2, line 1), and substitute the following: (b) The financial support of elementary and secondary education shall be first among State spending priorities, subject only to the payment of lawfully incurred State debt and except as otherwise provided by this Constitution or general law. (2) In SECTION 7, strike added subsection (d) to Section 22, Article VIII, Texas Constitution (page 11, lines 11-13), and substitute the following: (d) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply, for the biennium ending August 31, 1999, to appropriations to the extent made from the amount of the increase in revenue as a result of the changes in the law made by HB 4, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997. This subsection expires September 1, 1999.