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Amend CSHJR 3 (senate committee report) in SECTION 2 of the bill, amending Section 20, Article VII, Texas Constitution, by striking amended Subsection (g) (page 2, lines 5 through 12), and substituting the following:
(g) The legislature shall establish criteria by which a state university may become eligible to receive a portion of the distributions from the fund. A state university that is entitled to participate in dedicated funding provided by Section 18 of this article is [becomes eligible to receive a portion of the distributions from the fund in a state fiscal biennium remains eligible to receive additional distributions from the fund in any subsequent state fiscal biennium.
The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are] not eligible to receive money from the fund.