Amend CSHB 1675 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered ARTICLE to the bill and renumbering subsequent ARTICLES of the bill as appropriate:

ARTICLE __. ENTITIES GIVEN 2015 SUNSET DATE

SECTION __.__.  TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY. (a) Section 7.004, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 7.004.  SUNSET PROVISION. The Texas Education Agency is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act).  Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the agency is abolished September 1, 2015 [2013].

(b)  This section takes effect only if the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, does not enact other legislation that becomes law and that amends Section 7.004, Education Code, to extend the sunset date of the Texas Education Agency. If the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, enacts legislation of that kind, this section has no effect.

(c)  The Sunset Advisory Commission shall limit its review of the Texas Education Agency in preparation for the work of the 84th Legislature in Regular Session to the appropriateness of recommendations made by the commission to the 83rd Legislature. In the commission's report to the 84th Legislature, the commission may include any recommendations it considers appropriate. This subsection expires September 1, 2015.