Amend CSHB 1, Article III, on page III-21, by inserting the 
following appropriately-numbered Rider to the appropriation for 
the Texas Education Agency to read as follows and renumbering 
subsequent Riders accordingly:
	"____. Teachers & other Professional Staff Pay Raise. To the 
extent that the amount appropriated in A.1.1., FSP-Equalized 
Operations, together with all other amounts appropriated from the 
Foundation School Fund and other sources for the cost of property 
tax relief, exceeds the amount determined by the Commissioner to be 
necessary to achieve a compression percentage of .667 in the 2009 
fiscal year plus that which is required to fully fund the school 
finance formulas, the excess shall be appropriated to the Texas 
Education Agency to increase the salaries of all teachers and other 
professional staff as defined by 21.402, Education Code."