Amend CSSB 1 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION:

SECTION ____.  Subsections (s-2) and (s-3), Section 42.152, Education Code, are amended to read as follows:

(s-2)  [The commissioner may provide allotments under Subsection (s) only if funds are specifically appropriated for that purpose or the commissioner determines that the amount appropriated for purposes of the Foundation School Program exceeds the amount to which school districts are entitled under this chapter and the excess funds may be used for that purpose.] The total amount allotted [appropriated for allotments] under Subsection (s) may not exceed $9.9 million in a school year. If the total amount of allotments to which districts are entitled under Subsection (s) for a school year exceeds $9.9 million [the amount appropriated or otherwise available for allotments under that subsection], the commissioner shall reduce each district's allotment under that subsection proportionately.

(s-3)  Subsections (s), (s-1), (s-2), and this subsection expire September 1, 2017 [2013].