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Amend HB 2013 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill 
appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code                       
	Amendment to Sec. 130.0012.  PILOT PROJECT:  BACCALAUREATE 
DEGREE PROGRAMS.  (a)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating 
Board shall establish a pilot project  authorizing public junior 
colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs in the fields of 
applied science and applied technology at a community college which 
currently:
		(1)  has offered an associates degree in fire science 
for at least 35 years;
		(2)  has a facility in place that is operational;                      
		(3)  has the requisite faculty to comply with the 
accreditation requirements of the Commission on Colleges of the 
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; and
		(4)  enters into an agreement with the coordinating 
board to waive state funding for one or more academic years for all 
or a specified level of courses offered under the program under 
subsection (g).
	(2)  In SECTION 3 of the bill, immediately following amended 
Section 130.0012(b), Education Code (page 3, between lines 1 and 
2),  insert the following:
	(g)  In its recommendations to the legislature relating to 
state funding for public junior colleges, the coordinating board 
shall recommend that a public junior college receive substantially 
the same state support for junior-level and senior-level courses 
offered under this section as that provided to a general academic 
teaching institution for substantially similar courses. In 
determining the contact hours attributable to students enrolled in 
a junior-level or senior-level course offered under this section 
used to determine a public junior college's proportionate share of 
state appropriations under Section 130.003, the coordinating board 
shall weigh those contact hours as necessary to provide the junior 
college the appropriate level of state support to the extent state 
funds for those courses are included in the appropriations.  This 
subsection does not prohibit the legislature from directly 
appropriating state funds to support junior-level and senior-level 
courses offered under this section.  The governing board of a public 
junior college that offers a degree program under this section may 
enter into an agreement with the coordinating board to waive state 
funding for one or more academic years for all or a specified level 
of courses offered under the program.  The coordinating board may 
not include state funding for those courses in its funding 
recommendations to the legislature for public junior colleges for 
any academic year for which the governing board of the public junior 
college has agreed to waive state funding under this subsection.