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	Amend CSHB 829 as follows:                                                   

(1)  On page 1, line 5, immediately following "amended by", 	insert "amending Subsection (b) and".
	(2)  On page 1, between lines 10 and 11, insert the 
following:               
	(b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), the 
commissioner[,] after due notice to the parties interested[,] 
shall, not later than the 180th day after the date an appeal under 
Subsection (a) is filed, hold a hearing and issue a decision without 
cost to the parties involved.  In conducting a hearing under this 
subsection, the commissioner has the same authority relating to 
discovery and conduct of a hearing as a hearing examiner has under 
Subchapter F, Chapter 21.  This section does not deprive any party 
of any legal remedy.
	SECTION 2.  Section 7.057(b), Education Code, as amended by 
this Act, applies only to an appeal to the commissioner of education 
filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  An appeal to the 
commissioner of education filed before the effective date of this 
Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the appeal was 
filed, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	(3)  Renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly.