Floor Packet Page No. 107                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 2 as follows:                                                     

(1)  On page 17, between lines 13 and 14, insert the 	following:              
	(c)  The commissioner and the State Board of Education shall 
adopt policies designed to ensure that, not later than the 
2012–2013 school year:
		(1)  the total amount spent for a school year by school 
districts in this state on traditional, bound textbooks is less 
than 25 percent of the average amount used by the Texas Education 
Agency to purchase traditional, bound textbooks in each year of the 
state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2005; and
		(2)  the money saved by reducing spending on 
traditional, bound textbooks is used to purchase electronic 
instructional materials or other technology that may be used to 
convey information to a student or that otherwise contributes to 
the learning process.
	(2)  On page 17, line 14, strike "(c) This section applies" 
and substitute "(d) Subsections (a) and (b) apply".