Overview                                                             
	The rider would appropriate additional funds to the Texas 
Education Agency for enhanced allocations per approved route mile 
through the transportation allotment, contingent on passage of HB 
207 or similar legislation.

Required Action                                                        
	On page III-27 of the Texas Education Agency bill pattern, 
add the following new rider:
	Contingency Appropriation for HB 207. Contingent upon the 
enactment of HB 207, or similar legislation by the Eightieth 
Legislature, Regular Session relating to the transportation 
allotment provided under the public school finance system, the 
Texas Education Agency is hereby appropriated $ ________ in 
Foundation School Funds in fiscal year 2008 and $ ________ in 
Foundation School Funds in fiscal year 2009 for increased state aid 
through the transportation allotment under the provisions of that 
legislation.
	Also contingent upon the enactment of HB 207, or similar 
legislation by the Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, the 
allocation per mile of approved route for the transportation 
allotment, as contained in Rider 5 of the Texas Education Agency's 
bill pattern of the General Appropriations Act for the 2008–09 
biennium, is hereby struck and replaced with the allocations per 
mile of approved route by linear density grouping established in § 
42.155 of the Texas Education Code, as amended by that legislation.