Amend CSHB 2 in SECTION 2C.02 of the bill, in added Section 
28.027, Education Code (committee printing, page 31,  between lines 
31 and 32), by inserting the following new Subsection (b) and 
relettering existing Subsections (b) and (c) accordingly:
	(b)  The agency shall ensure that vendors are not paid under 
Subsection (a) for the administration of an assessment instrument 
to a student to whom the assessment instrument is not actually 
administered.  The agency may comply with this subsection by any 
reasonable means, including by creating a refund system under which 
a vendor returns any payment made for a student who registered for 
the administration of an assessment instrument but did not appear 
for the administration.