Amend SB 1470 as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill (committee printing, page 1,
line 12), strike "Subsection (d),".
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill (committee printing, page 1,
line 14), between "amended" and "to", insert "by amending
Subsections (b) and (d) and adding Subsection (b-1)".
(3) In SECTION 1 of the bill, immediately preceding 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 14 and 15), insert the
following:
(b) Any [A] school district or open-enrollment charter
school may [not] apply for authorization to operate a program under
this section [unless on May 1, 2001, the district or school was
operating a similar program as authorized by the agency]. As part
of the application process, the commissioner shall require a
district or school to provide information regarding the operation
of any [that] similar program during the preceding five years.
(b-1) A school district or open-enrollment charter school
authorized by the commissioner on or before August 31, 2003, to
operate a program under this section may continue to operate that
program in accordance with this section.