Amend Amendment No. 22 by Farrar (page 10, prefiled amendment packet) to CSSB 2 (house committee report) by striking added Subsection (a) and substituting the following:

(a)  In addition to amounts appropriated to the Texas Education Agency for the Foundation School Program by this Act or similar legislation, the amount necessary to provide school districts and open-enrollment charter schools with at least the amount of state and local maintenance and operations funding per student in weighted average daily attendance that the district or school would be entitled to receive under Chapter 42, Education Code, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2011, for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2011, as determined by the commissioner of education in consultation with the Legislative Budget Board, is appropriated from the economic stabilization fund to the Texas Education Agency for the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42, Education Code.

(b)  It is the intent of the legislature that money appropriated under this section be distributed in a manner that would provide each school district and open-enrollment charter school with at least the amount of state and local maintenance and operations funding per student in weighted average daily attendance that the district or school would be entitled to receive under Chapter 42, Education Code, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2011, for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2011, to the extent authorized by general law.