Amend SB 1470 as follows:                                                    
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill (committee printing, page 1, 
line 12), strike "Subsection (d)" and substitute "Subsections (d) 
and (f)".
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill (committee printing, page 1, 
line 14), strike "is" and substitute "are".
	(3)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, immediately following amended  
Subsection (d), Section 29.087, Education Code, as added by Chapter 
1514, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001 
(committee printing, page 1, between lines 37 and 38), insert the 
following:
	(f)  A [Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, a] 
student participating in a program authorized by this section must 
have taken the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) and performed 
satisfactorily on that test [exit-level assessment instruments 
specified by Section 39.025(a)] before entering the program [or 
must take those assessment instruments during the first year in 
which the student is enrolled in the program].  The board of 
trustees of the school district or the governing body of the 
open-enrollment charter school operating the program shall adopt a 
policy that establishes the level of performance considered to be 
satisfactory for purposes of this subsection [The commissioner may 
authorize a student to take the assessment instruments required by 
Section 39.023(a) to be administered to students in grade 10 
instead of the exit-level assessment instruments.  A student 
participating in the program may not take the high school 
equivalency examination unless the student has taken the assessment 
instruments required by this subsection].