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 IX of the bill, in Part 6, General Limitations on Expenditures (page IX-30), add the following appropriately numbered section:

____.  Prohibition on Funding for a State Agency with Certain Practices or Policies. It is the intent of the legislature that each appropriation of general revenue or from a general revenue-dedicated account under this Act to a state agency, including a public institution of higher education, that engages in any official action, including the design, implementation, or administration of practices or programs, such as agency rules, policies, employment practices, communications, awarding of government benefits or contracts, or curricula, that does not comply with the biological reality that there are only two biological sexes, male and female, and that those sexes are not changeable, or that engages in diversity, equity, and inclusion, including promoting the differential treatment of individuals on the basis of race, color, or ethnicity, is reduced to $0.