Amend CSSB 2 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering existing SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:

SECTION ____.  Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund at The University of Texas at El Paso. It is the intent of the legislature that:

(1)  $3,562,500 in General Revenue appropriated to The University of Texas at El Paso by HB 1, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act), for special item support for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, be used to provide funds for the Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund at the university;

(2)  the funds described by Subdivision (1) of this section be treated as if the funds were listed as an additional research formula strategy, Strategy D.2.1, Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund, in the bill pattern of The University of Texas at El Paso in HB 1, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act); and

(3)  the funds described by Subdivision (1) of this section be subject to Section 56, relating to appropriations for the Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund, in the Special Provisions Relating Only to State Agencies of Higher Education in HB 1, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act).

SECTION ____.  Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund at The University of Texas at Arlington. It is the intent of the legislature that:

(1)  $3,562,500 in General Revenue appropriated to The University of Texas at Arlington by HB 1, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act), for special item support for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, be used to provide funds for the Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund at the university;

(2)  the funds described by Subdivision (1) of this section be treated as if the funds were listed as an additional research formula strategy, Strategy D.2.1, Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund, in the bill pattern of The University of Texas at Arlington in HB 1, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act); and

(3)  the funds described by Subdivision (1) of this section be subject to Section 56, relating to appropriations for the Texas Competitive Knowledge Fund, in the Special Provisions Relating Only to State Agencies of Higher Education in HB 1, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act).