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Floor Packet Page No. 303                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 1 as follows:                                                     
	Tarleton State University
	Central Texas Center
	Article III-84                                                                 
	Overview                                                                
	Tarleton-CT has been assigned the responsibility to extend 
quality public higher educational access to the Killeen/Ft. Hood 
area, one of the fastest growing areas of the state.  The Central 
Texas Center was the first campus created by the State of Texas 
using the Pathway Model.
	Since its creation in the Fall of 1999, Tarleton-CT has 
experienced phenomenal growth.  Enrollment in Spring of 2003 was 
1722, a 36% increase since the Center's beginning in Fall 1999.
	Standard state funding for operations through its formula 
system is not adequate.  Student educational demand is outgrowing 
current facilities, and facility costs that have been provided at 
discount by the community will now be at cost.  Without increased 
funding, the Center will not be able to continue its current level 
of course offerings.
	Compared to the start-up funding appropriated for other 
university's centers, Tarleton-Central Texas is significantly 
under-funded.
	This amendment moves appropriated funds that were 
recommended by the full HAC committee to a strategy that will allow 
higher education to continue to be offered to Fort Hood soldiers and 
their dependents, as well as citizens throughout the Killeen area.
	Required Actions                                                        
	Delete Strategy C.3.2. TOTAL FUNDING HOLD HARMLESS and move 
funds appropriated from that strategy ($1,157,500 each year FY 
2004-2005) to Strategy C.1.1 CENTRAL TEXAS CENTER (currently funded 
at $21,875 each year of the 04-05 biennium; new total would reflect 
funding of $1,179,375 for FY 04 and $1,179,375 for FY 05).