Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In Article III of the bill, in the bill pattern for the Texas Education Agency, in Goal A, Provide Education System Leadership, Guidance, and Resources (III-1), add Strategy A.1.3, Property Tax Relief, and appropriate the amount of money equal to the amount by which appropriations are reduced under Item (2) of this amendment from the general revenue fund to the Texas Education Agency for that strategy for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2027, to reduce the state compression percentage under Section 48.255, Education Code, to the lowest possible percentage for that biennium.

(2)  In Article III of the bill, following the appropriations to Public Community/Junior Colleges (III-227), amend Rider 2, Appropriation Eligibility, by adding the following appropriately numbered subsection:

____.  Each community/junior college may not offer a certificate or degree program, including a major or minor, or a course in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer studies or in diversity, equity, and inclusion, including but not limited to a program or course that does not comply with the biological reality that there are only two sexes—male and female—and they are not changeable or promotes differential treatment of individuals on the basis of race, color, or ethnicity. The funds that any community/junior college which violates this section would otherwise be eligible to receive is reduced to $0.