Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered provision following the Article III appropriations to the Higher Education Coordinating Board (page III-51):

____.  Dental Education Loan Repayment Program. (a) The amount of $400,000 is appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Board for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2020, for the purpose of providing repayment of eligible student loans in accordance with Subchapter V, Chapter 61, Education Code, to not more than 10 dentists who meet the requirements of that subchapter, including practicing in a county with a population of less than 50,000 and wholly located in a federally designated dental health care health professional shortage area, practicing in a facility federally designated as a dental health care health professional shortage area and located in a county with a population of less than 50,000, and providing services to a population federally designated as a dental health care health professional shortage area and residing in a county with a population of less than 50,000, and the additional amount of $400,000 is appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Board for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2021, for the same purposes.

(b)  The Higher Education Coordinating Board shall:

(1)  provide to each dentist who meets the requirements to receive funds under Subsection (a) loan repayment assistance in an amount not to exceed $40,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2020, and $40,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2021; and

(2)  for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2021, give priority in granting loan repayment assistance under Subchapter V, Chapter 61, Education Code, to a dentist who received loan repayment assistance under that subchapter for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2020.

(c)  The Higher Education Coordinating Board shall include in its annual report to the legislature on financial aid in this state the results of a survey regarding the rates of retention in federally designated dental health care health professional shortage areas for dentists who have completed a Dental Education Loan Repayment Program application in which the dentist agreed to practice in such a shortage area.

(2)  Reduce the appropriations made by the Act from the General Revenue Fund for all programs and agencies proportionately for a total reduction of $800,000 for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2021.

(3)  Adjust totals and methods of financing accordingly.