Amend HR 4 (proposing the rules of the house for the 82nd Legislature) as follows:

(1) In Rule 4, Section 34, page 71, between lines 4 and 5, insert the following:

(a-1) The chair of the appropriations committee shall send a copy of the general appropriations bill to the Legislative Budget Board for the preparation of a dynamic economic impact statement, specifically including the number of state employees to be affected and the estimated impact on private-sector employment in Texas as a result of any change in state expenditures made by the bill as compared to the biennium preceding the biennium to which the bill applies.