Amend CSHB 4 (house committee printing) by inserting the following appropriately-numbered SECTION and renumbering any subsequent SECTIONS and updating any cross-references accordingly:

SECTION ____. Unexpended balances in General Revenue Funds appropriated for the Office of the Governor, the State Preservation Board, the Office of the Attorney General, the Texas Legislature, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts as of August 31, 2011, in the amounts estimated by the General Appropriations Act for the 2012-2013 biennium, are appropriated to The Higher Education Coordinating Board for TEXAS Grants and Tuition Equalization Grant Program. The Office of the Governor, the State Preservation Board, the Office of the Attorney General, the Texas Legislature, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts may not encumber their respective unexpended balances on or after March 1, 2011, and an encumbrance made after that date is void. The amount of general revenue made available by this section must not exceed the amount of the reduction in appropriations made to The Higher Education Coordinating Board by this Act and must be used to prevent a reduction in appropriations.