Floor Packet Page No. 97 Amend CSHB 2 in ARTICLE 2, PART C, of the bill by inserting the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS accordingly: SECTION 2C. . Chapter 4, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 4.003 to read as follows: Sec. 4.003. COMPLIANCE WITH CERTAIN UNFUNDED STATE MANDATES NOT REQUIRED. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "CSHB 2 mandate" means a provision of a state statute amended or added by CSHB 2, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Second Called Session, 2005, or rule adopted under a statute amended or added by CSHB 2, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Second Called Session, 2005, that requires: (A) school district action to implement the provisions; and (B) an expenditure by a school district that would not have been required in the absence of the provision. (2) "Unfunded CSHB 2 mandate" means an CSHB 2 mandate for which the legislature has not appropriated funds estimated to be sufficient to meet the state's share of financing the expenditure. (b) The Legislative Budget Board shall conduct a study of CSHB 2 mandates. The study shall identify each CSHB 2 mandate and each unfunded CSHB 2 mandate. (c) Each school district shall cooperate with the board by providing information relating to the district's cost of implementing an CSHB 2 mandate. At the board's request, the agency, state auditor, comptroller, and other state officers and agencies shall assist the board in conducting the study and analyzing information obtained from school districts. (d) Not later than November 1, 2005, the board shall: (1) prepare a certified list of each unfunded CSHB 2 mandate; and (2) deliver the certified list to the secretary of state for publication in the Texas Register. (e) A school district is not required to comply with an unfunded CSHB 2 mandate that appears on the certified list published under Subsection (d).