Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  Increase the Article III appropriations to the Higher Education Coordinating Board for Strategy B.1.8, Student Financial Aid Programs (page III-34), by $12,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2012, and by $12,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2013.

(2)  In Article III of the bill, following the appropriations to the Higher Education Coordinating Board (page III-41), amend Subsection d in Rider 20 (Student Financial Aid Programs) to read as follows:

d. Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy B.1.8, Student Financial Aid Programs, the Higher Education Coordinating Board shall allocate not less than $240,249,693 in fiscal year 2012 and $149,459,000 in fiscal year 2013 to the TEXAS Grant Program. The Higher Education Coordinating Board may allocate additional funds from the strategy to this program.

(3)  Reduce the Article VII appropriations to the Texas Workforce Commission for Strategy A.2.1, Skills Development (page VII-36), by $12,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2012, and by $12,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2013.

(4)  Adjust totals and methods of financing appropriately.