Amend HB 160 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, making an appropriation to the Higher Education Coordinating Board for university construction (page 3, line 23), strike "$325,000,000" and substitute "$77,500,000".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill and cross-references to those SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: TEXAS RESEARCH INCENTIVE PROGRAM. The amount of $247,500,000 is appropriated to the Higher Education Coordinating Board from money received by this state from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (42 U.S.C. Section 802) established under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) and deposited to the credit of the Coronavirus Relief Fund No. 325 to be used during the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act for the purpose of increasing the appropriation for the purposes of Strategy G.1.1, Texas Research Incentive Program, as listed in Chapter 1053 (SB 1), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021 (the General Appropriations Act).