Amend CSSB 2118 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  On page 2, line 25, through page 4, line 21, strike the text and substitute the following:

SECTION 5.  Section 130.0012(b-1), Education Code, is transferred to Subchapter L, Chapter 130, Education Code, as added by this Act, redesignated as Section 130.304, Education Code, and amended to read as follows:

Sec. 130.304.  BACCALAUREATE IN DENTAL HYGIENE. [(b-1)] The coordinating board shall authorize [establish a pilot project to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of authorizing] baccalaureate degree programs in the field of dental hygiene at a public junior college that offers a degree program in that field, has a main campus located in the county seat of a county with a population greater than 200,000, and includes territory in at least six public school districts located in two counties. [Subsection (g) does not apply to junior-level and senior-level courses offered under this subsection. In its recommendations to the legislature relating to state funding for public junior colleges, the coordinating board shall recommend that junior-level and senior-level courses offered under this subsection by a public junior college receive the same state support as other courses offered by the public junior college.]

(2)  On page 10, line 21 through page 11, line 14, strike the text and substitute the following:

(b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), in [(g) In] its recommendations to the legislature relating to state funding for public junior colleges, the coordinating board shall recommend that a public junior college authorized to offer baccalaureate degree programs under Section 130.303(a) or 130.304 receive substantially the same state support for junior-level and senior-level courses in the fields of applied science, applied technology, and dental hygiene offered under this subchapter [section] as that provided to a general academic teaching institution for substantially similar courses. For purposes of this subsection, in [In] determining the contact hours attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level or senior-level course in the field of applied science, applied technology, or dental hygiene offered under this subchapter [section] used to determine a public junior college's proportionate share of state appropriations under Section 130.003, the coordinating board shall weigh those contact hours as necessary to provide the junior college the appropriate level of state support to the extent state funds for those courses are included in the appropriations. This subsection does not prohibit the legislature from directly appropriating state funds to support junior-level and senior-level courses to which this subsection applies [offered under this section].

(3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Sections 130.0012(b-2) and (b-3), Education Code, are repealed.

SECTION ____.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section 130.0012(b-1), Education Code, redesignated as Section 130.304, Education Code, apply beginning with funding recommendations made under Subchapter L, Chapter 130, Education Code, as added by this Act, for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2019.