Amend the Hardcastle amendment to CSHB 5 as follows:                         
	(1) On page 1, line 18, strike "and".                                          
	(2) On page 1, between lines 18 and 19, insert the following:                  
		(3) the legislature has, by majority vote, determined 
that the alternate school finance system enacted in compliance 
Subdivision (1) of this subsection is at least as equitable in 
providing state and local funding per student as the school finance 
system established under Chapters 41, 42, 45, and 46, Education 
Code, as those chapters existed on January 1, 2003; and
	(3) On page 1, line 19, strike "(3)" and substitute "(4)".