Amend CSHB 6 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  Strike page 39, line 23, through page 40, line 16, and substitute the following:

Sec. 31.102.  TITLE AND CUSTODY. (a)  Each instructional material [textbook] purchased as provided by this chapter for a school district or an open-enrollment charter school is the property of the district or school [this state].

(b)  Subsection (a) applies to [an] electronic instructional material [textbook] only to the extent of any applicable licensing agreement.

(c)  The board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school [is the legal custodian of textbooks purchased as provided by this chapter for the district or school. The board of trustees] shall distribute printed instructional material [textbooks] to students in the manner that the board or governing body determines is most effective and economical.

(2)  Strike page 42, line 24, through page 43, line 6, and substitute the following:

(c)  [Each textbook must state that the textbook is the property of or is licensed to this state, as appropriate. Each textbook, other than an electronic textbook or a printed copy of an open-source textbook, must be covered by the student under the direction of the teacher.] Except as provided by Subsection (g), a student must return all instructional materials [textbooks] to the teacher at the end of the school year or when the student withdraws from school.