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	Amend CSHB 10 (House Committee Printing) as follows:                         
	(1)  On page 9, following line 27, insert the following new 
SECTION, appropriately numbered:
	SECTION      . TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: 
FORMULA FUNDING.  In addition to amounts previously appropriated 
for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2005, the amount of 
$600,000,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the 
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for the two-year period 
beginning on the effective date of this Act for the purpose of 
increasing the amount of formula funding distributed to 
institutions of higher education. The coordinating board shall 
allocate money appropriated by this section to institutions of 
higher education as determined appropriate by the board, consistent 
with the board's funding formulas, to supplement other money 
appropriated to those institutions.
	(2)  On page 14, between lines 1 and 2, insert the following 
new SECTION, appropriately numbered:
	SECTION      . LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURE OF APPROPRIATED 
TUITION AND FEES:  INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.  (a)  An 
institution of higher education may not expend any revenue 
appropriated to the institution for any academic period of the 
2005-2006 academic year if the total amount of tuition under 
Section 54.0513, Education Code, and mandatory fees charged to a 
student by the institution exceeds 103 percent of the total amount 
of such tuition and compulsory fees that a similarly situated 
student would have paid for the corresponding academic period of 
the 2004-2005 academic year.
	(b)  For the two-year period beginning on the effective date 
of this Act, an institution of higher education may not expend any 
revenue appropriated to the institution for any academic period of 
the 2006-2007 academic year if the total amount of tuition under 
Section 54.0513, Education Code, and mandatory fees charged to a 
student by the institution exceeds 106 percent of the total amount 
of such tuition and compulsory fees that a similarly situated 
student would have paid for the corresponding academic period of 
the 2004-2005 academic year.
	(c)  For purposes of this section, students are similarly 
situated if they share the same residency status, degree program, 
course load, course level, tuition exemption status, and other 
circumstances affecting the tuition and compulsory fees charged to 
the student.
	(3)  Renumber SECTIONS of the bill accordingly: