Amend CSHB 1 in Article III of the bill, following the appropriations to the Texas Education Agency, by adding the following appropriately numbered rider to read as follows:

____.  State Board for Educator Certification Funding Contingency. The appropriations made by this Act to the Texas Education Agency for Strategy B.3.3, State Board for Educator Certification, are contingent on the educator's code of ethics adopted under Section 21.041, Education Code, containing no provision that violates the Texas Constitution or other laws of this state. The State Board for Educator Certification may not spend any appropriated money for certification enforcement after the date the attorney general, in response to a request from a person with the authority to request an opinion, issues an opinion that a provision of the educator's code of ethics violates the Texas Constitution or other laws of this state.