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Amend CSHB 870 (senate committee printing) by striking page 1, lines 39 through 51, and substituting the following:
Sec. 62.0925. ELIGIBILITY OF PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY. (a) Notwithstanding Section 62.092(2), Prairie View A&M University is an eligible institution for purposes of eligibility for a distribution from the research development fund under this subchapter for a state fiscal year only if the university is not an eligible institution for that fiscal year for purposes of eligibility for an appropriation or distribution from the Texas competitive knowledge fund established under other law.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 62.092(2) or Subsection (a) of this section, for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2017, Prairie View A&M University is an eligible institution for purposes of eligibility for a distribution from the research development fund under this subchapter only if the total amount of money appropriated for that state fiscal biennium for distributions from the fund to those eligible institutions that received distributions from the fund in the preceding state fiscal biennium is not less than the total amount of money that was appropriated for distributions from the fund to those eligible institutions for that preceding state fiscal biennium, such that the distribution to Prairie View A&M University of the proportionate share of the fund to which the university is entitled under the methodology prescribed by Section 62.095 for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2017, does not have the effect of reducing the amounts from the fund to which the other eligible institutions are entitled for that state fiscal biennium. This subsection expires January 1, 2018.