Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 56 of the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the ARTICLE accordingly:

SECTION 56.____. Section 41.093, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2009-2010 school year, the commissioner may allow a school district to determine the cost of each credit under Subsection (a) based on the amount described by Subsection (a)(1) if the district imposed a tax to service the district's debt for the 2009 tax year at a rate at least equal to the maintenance and operations tax rate the district imposed for the 2008 tax year. This subsection expires September 1, 2012.