Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing), in Part 17, Article IX, by adding the following appropriately numbered section:

Sec. 17.____.  Appropriation Reduction for School District Property Tax Relief. Notwithstanding the amounts appropriated by this Act and except as otherwise provided by this section, each appropriation of undedicated general revenue made by this Act for each fiscal year in the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2021, is reduced by seven percent. The reduction must be allocated proportionately to each applicable strategy identified in bill pattern appropriations. The reduction does not apply to an appropriation made by this Act to the Texas Education Agency, the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, or the Texas School for the Deaf, or to an appropriation made to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for purposes of Strategy A.1.1, A.2.1, or A.3.1, as listed in the bill pattern appropriations for that agency (page III-36). An amount of general revenue equal to the amount by which appropriations are reduced under this section is appropriated to the Texas Education Agency for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2021, for use in providing school district property tax relief by reducing the state compression percentage, as defined by Section 42.2516, Education Code.