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Floor Packet Page No. 190                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 2 on page 72, between lines 5 and 6, by adding the 
following new SECTION, appropriately numbered, and  renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION 2B.___.  Chapter 13, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subchapter H to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER H.  STUDY OF CONSOLIDATION AND OTHER METHODS

FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY
	Sec. 13.301.  BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION TO STUDY EFFICIENCY.  
(a)  A blue ribbon commission is established to study methods 
designed to improve efficiency in public education.  The commission 
shall concentrate on studying consolidation of school districts to 
determine any costs or savings and any effect on the quality of 
public education in this state that would result from 
consolidation.  The commission shall also study other methods 
designed to improve efficiency to determine whether those methods 
would result in quantifiable cost savings in public education while 
maintaining or improving the quality of public education.
	(b)  The commission is composed of seven members as  follows:           
		(1)  two members appointed by the governor;                            
		(2)  two members appointed by the lieutenant governor;                 
		(3)  two members appointed by the speaker of the house 
of representatives; and
		(4)  the commissioner of education.                                    
	(c)  The governor shall appoint as presiding officer of the 
commission a member of the commission, other than the commissioner 
of education.
	(d)  The agency shall serve as the commission's staff.  The 
comptroller, Legislative Budget Board, and school districts shall 
cooperate with the commission in conducting the study.
	(e)  Not later than December 31, 2006, the commission shall 
submit to the legislature a report based on the commission's study 
under this section.  The report must include:
		(1)  a discussion of consolidation of school districts 
and other methods designed to improve efficiency that the 
commission studied;
		(2)  any recommendations the commission has concerning 
methods that the commission studied and determined would result in 
quantifiable cost savings in public education while maintaining or 
improving the quality of public education; and
		(3)  the amount of cost savings determined to be 
associated with a method recommended under Subdivision (2).
	Sec. 13.302.  EXPIRATION.  This subchapter expires January 
15, 2007.