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Floor Packet Page No. 129                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 2 on page 12, between lines 22 and 23, by inserting 
the following:
	"Sec. 42.156.    GIFTED    AND    TALENTED    STUDENT    
ALLOTMENT. (a) For each identified student a school district serves 
in a program for gifted and talented students that the district 
certifies to the commissioner as complying with Subchapter D, 
Chapter 29, a district is entitled to an annual allotment of $546 
for each school year or a greater amount provided by appropriation.
	(b)  Funds allocated under this section, other than the 
amount that represents the program's share of general 
administrative costs, must be used in providing programs for gifted 
and talented students under Subchapter D, Chapter 29, including 
programs sanctioned by International Baccalaureate and Advanced 
Placement, or in developing programs for gifted and talented 
students. Each district must account for the expenditure of state 
funds as provided by rule of the State Board of Education. If by the 
end of the 12th month after receiving an allotment for developing a 
program a district has failed to implement a program, the district 
must refund the amount of the allotment to the agency within 30 
days.
	(c)  Not more than five percent of a district's students in 
average daily attendance are eligible for funding under this 
section.
	(d)  If the amount of state funds for which school districts 
are eligible under this section exceeds the amount of state funds 
appropriated in any year for the programs, the commissioner shall 
reduce each district's tier one allotments in the same manner 
described for a reduction in allotments under Section 42.253.
	(e)  If the total amount of funds allotted under this section 
before a date set by rule of the State Board of Education  is less 
than the total amount appropriated for a school year, the 
commissioner shall transfer the remainder to any program for which 
an allotment under Section 42.152 may be used.
	(f)  After each district has received allotted funds for this 
program, the State Board of Education may use up to $500,000 of the 
funds allocated under this section for programs such as MATHCOUNTS, 
Future Problem Solving, Odyssey of the Mind, and Academic 
Decathlon, as long as these funds are used to train personnel and 
provide program services. To be eligible for funding under this 
subsection, a program must be determined by the State Board of 
Education to provide services that are effective and consistent 
with the state plan for gifted and talented education."

	
(Flynn in the chair)