Amend CSHB 1554 as follows:                                                  
	(1)  On page 2, line 7, strike "[(a)]" and substitute "(a)".  
	(2)  On page 2, between lines 18 and 19, insert the following:                 
	(b)  In granting a charter under Subsection (a)(2), the State 
Board of Education shall give preference to an applicant 
administering a virtual charter school for which at least 75 
percent of the prospective student population, as specified in the 
school's proposed charter, are students who have dropped out of 
school or who are at risk of dropping out of school, as determined 
under Section 29.081(d).