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.