Amend the Eissler amendment to CSHB 1 (amendment packet, page 

34) as follows:

	(1)  On page 8 of the amendment, between lines 21 and 22, 

insert the following:

	SECTION 2.07.  Section 44.007, Education Code, is amended by 

adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

	(e)  The State Board of Education shall prepare a report for 

the 80th Legislature evaluating the benefits of providing school 

districts with standardized accounting software that would meet the 

requirements of this section and any other appropriate sections. 

The report shall consider any savings and costs to school districts 

from having such software provided, including any savings to 

districts from no longer paying programming costs in response to 

changes in state law or agency or State Board of Education rules. 

The report may consider software accessed by alternative methods, 

such as web-based methods or network-based methods, as may be most 

economical for districts of different sizes. The report shall also 

consider any accountability benefits from making the information 

collected by such software available on an ongoing basis to the 

agency and to the public, and personnel and other costs required for 

the agency to review this information continuously to alert school 

board members and superintendents of areas of potential waste or 

fraud. This subsection expires September 1, 2007.

	(2)  On page 8 of the amendment, line 22, strike "2.07" and 

substitute "2.08".