Amend CSSB 139 as follows: (1) In the heading of SECTION 1 strike "Subsection (l)" and insert "Subsections (l) and (m)" (committee printing page 1, line 14). (2) In SECTION 1 (committee printing page 1, line 19) add Subsection (m) to Section 37.008, Education Code, as follows: "(m) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to administer the provisions of Chapter 39 for alternative education programs. Academically, the mission of alternative education programs shall be to enable students to perform at grade level. Each alternative education program shall be treated as a campus subject to applicable provisions of Subchapters C, D, F, and G, Chapter 39, as determined by the commissioner. Annually, the commissioner shall define exemplary, recognized, and unacceptable performance for alternative education programs, based principally on comparable and required improvement standards that measure academic progress of students toward grade level while attending an alternative education program."