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Floor Packet Page No. 239                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 2 as follows:                                                     
	(1) In ARTICLE 2, PART C, insert the following 
appropriately-numbered SECTION to read as follows:
	"SECTION 2C.___.  Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Section 322.019 to read as follows:
	Sec. 322.019.  UNFUNDED LEGISLATIVE MANDATES.  (a) In this 
section, "legislative mandate" has the meaning assigned by Section 
67, Article III, Texas Constitution.
	(b)  On or before the September 1 following a regular session 
of the legislature and on or before the 90th day after the last day 
of a special session of the legislature, the board shall publish a 
list of legislative mandates regarding public education for which 
the legislature has not provided reimbursement as provided by 
Subsection (c) and that were enacted by the legislature during that 
legislative session.  By that same date the board shall:
		(1) remove from the list of public education 
legislative mandates for a previous legislative session a 
legislative mandate:
			(A)  for which the legislature has provided 
reimbursement as provided by Subsection (c); or 
			(B)  that is no longer in effect; and                                 
		(2)  add to the list a legislative mandate from a 
previous legislative session for which reimbursement was provided 
as provided by Subsection (c) in the previous session but for which 
reimbursement was not provided in the most recent regular session 
or in any subsequent special session.
	(c)  A legislative mandate is considered to be a mandate for 
which the legislature has provided reimbursement if the legislature 
appropriates or otherwise provides funds for a state fiscal year, 
other than revenue of the political subdivision, estimated to be 
sufficient to meet the cost incurred by all affected political 
subdivisions in the fiscal year of financing the expenditure.
	(d)  The board shall deliver the list prepared under 
Subsection (b) to the secretary of state for publication in the 
Texas Register.
	(e)  This section does not apply to a legislative mandate to 
which Section 67, Article III, does not apply."
	(2) On page 164, line 6, strike "is" and substitute "and 
Chapter 320, Government Code, are".