Amend CSHB 1926 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 30A.002(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b)  A student is eligible to enroll full-time in courses provided through the state virtual school network only if the student:

(1)  was enrolled in a public school in this state in the preceding school year; [or]

(2)  was a home-schooled student in this state in the preceding school year; or

(3)  has been placed in substitute care in this state, regardless of whether the student was enrolled in a public school in this state or was a home-schooled student in this state in the preceding school year.

SECTION ____.  Section 30A.007(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall adopt a policy that provides eligible [district or school] students with the opportunity to enroll in electronic courses provided through the state virtual school network.  The policy must be consistent with the requirements imposed by Section 26.0031.

SECTION ____.  Sections 30A.107(b) and (c), Education Code, are amended to read as follows:

(b)  A student who is enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school in this state as a full-time student or who is a home-schooled student in this state may take one or more electronic courses through the state virtual school network.

(c)  A student who resides in this state but who is not enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school in this state as a full-time student may, subject to Section 30A.155, enroll in electronic courses through the state virtual school network.  A student to whom this subsection applies:

(1)  may not in any semester enroll in more than two electronic courses offered through the state virtual school network, if the student is enrolled in a private school;

(2)  is not considered to be a public school student;

(3)  must obtain access to a course provided through the network through the school district or open-enrollment charter school attendance zone in which the student resides;

(4)  is not entitled to enroll in a course offered by a school district or open-enrollment charter school other than an electronic course provided through the network; and

(5)  is not entitled to any right, privilege, activities, or services available to a student enrolled in a public school, other than the right to receive the appropriate unit of credit for completing an electronic course.

SECTION ____.  Section 30A.155(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school may charge a fee for enrollment in an electronic course provided through the state virtual school network to a student who resides in this state and:

(1)  is enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school as a full-time student or is a home-schooled student; and

(2)  is enrolled in a course load greater than that normally taken by students in the equivalent grade level in other school districts or open-enrollment charter schools.

SECTION ____.  Sections 30A.002, 30A.007, 30A.107, and 30A.155, Education Code, as amended by this Act, apply beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.