Amend Floor Amendment No. 3 by Hochberg to CSHB 3646 as 
follows:           
	(1)  Strike page 6, lines 17-28, of the amendment and 
substitute the following:

and operations tax rate, provided that the district adopts a 
maintenance and operations tax rate for that school year at a rate 
at least equal to the greater of the rate adopted by the district 
for the 2008-2009 school year or the rate equal to the product of 
the state compression percentage multiplied by the maintenance and 
operations tax rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year.  
If the district adopts a maintenance and operations tax at a rate 
lower than the greater of those rates,  the commissioner shall 
exclude maintenance and operations tax revenue resulting from the 
first six cents by which the district's effective maintenance and 
operations tax rate exceeds the rate equal to the product of the 
state compression percentage[, as determined under Section 
42.2516,] multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax rate 
adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year.
	(2)  On page 9 of the amendment, strike lines 9-23 and 
substitute the following:
	(19)  On page 37, line 14, between "42.252" and the period, 
insert ", provided that the district adopts a maintenance and 
operations tax rate at a rate at least equal to the greater of the 
rate adopted by the district for the 2008-2009 school year or the 
rate equal to the product of the state compression percentage 
multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax rate adopted by 
the district for the 2005 tax year.".
	(20)  On page 37, line 22, insert the following after the 
period:            
	If a district adopts a maintenance and operations tax rate at 
a rate lower than the greater of the rates described above,  the 
district is entitled to the guaranteed level described by this 
subsection for the first six cents by which the district's 
effective maintenance and operations tax rate exceeds the rate 
equal to the product of the state compression percentage multiplied 
by the maintenance and operations tax rate adopted by the district 
for the 2005 tax year.