Floor Packet Page No. 72                                                    

	
Amend CSSB 1 as follows:                                                     
	(1.)  On page III-1, Supplemental Appropriations Made in 
Riders, decrease the amount by $900,000,000 for Fiscal Year 2006 
and by $900,000,000 for Fiscal year 2007.
	(2.)  On Page III-2, Strategy B.3.1. Improving Teacher 
Quality, under the appropriation for the Texas Education Agency, 
increase the general revenue appropriation for Fiscal Year 2006 by 
$900,000,000 and for Fiscal Year 2007 by $900,000,000.
	(3.)  On Page III-22, under the appropriation for the Texas 
Education Agency, insert the following appropriately numbered 
rider to read as follows:
	"____.  (a)  Out of funds appropriated in Strategy B.3.1., 
Improving Teacher Quality, the Texas Education Agency shall 
distribute to each school district, including a school district 
that is otherwise ineligible for state aid, an amount, as 
determined by the commissioner, equal to the product of $3000 
multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full time 
librarians, full time counselors and full time nurses employed by 
the district.
	(b.)  Each school district receiving funds under this section 
shall ensure that, for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years, a 
classroom teacher, full time librarian, full time counselor 
certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, or full 
time nurse is entitled to a monthly salary that is at least equal to 
the sum of:
		(1)  the monthly salary the employee would have received 
for the 2005-2006 or 2006-2007 school year, as applicable under the 
district's salary schedule for the 2004-2005 school year, if that 
schedule had been in effect for the 2005-2006 or 2006-2007 school 
year, including any local supplement and any money representing a 
career ladder supplement that the employee would have received in 
the 2005-2006 or 2006-2007 school year; and
		(2)  $300."                                                                   
	(4.)  On Page III-20, amend Section 81, on line 3, by striking 
the number "$3,000,000,000" and inserting the number 
"$1,200,000,000."