Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered rider under the Article III appropriations to the Texas Education Agency (page III-5):

____.  Contingent Appropriation: Students with Disabilities. Contingent on the passage and becoming law of HB 2296 or similar legislation of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, relating to the teacher to student ratio for students with disabilities:

(1)  the amount of $180,000,000 is appropriated out of the Economic Stabilization Fund to the Texas Education Agency for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019, for the purpose of providing an appropriate teacher to student ratio for students with disabilities; and

(2)  the appropriation from the Economic Stabilization Fund to the Department of Public Safety in Article IX for Border Security (page IX-86) is reduced by the amount of $180,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019.