Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) in Article III of the bill, following the appropriations to the Texas Education Agency (page III-3), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Contingent Rider: Minimum Wage for Public School Employees. (a) This rider is contingent on the passage and becoming law of HB 3274, or similar legislation of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, relating to establishing a minimum wage for public school employees.

(b)  It is the intent of the legislature that, out of the money appropriated above to the Texas Education Agency for Strategy A.1.1, Foundation School Program-Equalized Operations, the agency allocate an amount sufficient to provide funding to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to pay the increased costs associated with the required minimum wage for public school employees under HB 3274 or similar legislation of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019.