Amend CSHB 4 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY:  INCREASED BASIC ALLOTMENT UNDER FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM.  Contingent on this Act being approved by a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution, in addition to amounts previously appropriated for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2011, the amount of $1,100,000,000 is appropriated from Economic Stabilization Fund 0599 to the Texas Education Agency, Strategy A.1.1, FSP - Equalized Operations, for the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act to increase the basic allotment under Section 42.101, Education Code, to $4,905 for the fiscal years beginning September 1, 2011, and September 1, 2012.