Amend CSSB 2 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 5, line 10, strike "and (b-6)" and substitute "(b-6), and (b-7)".
(2) On page 8, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following:
(b-7) In adopting any financial standards under this subchapter that an applicant for a charter for an open-enrollment charter school must meet, the commissioner shall not:
(1) exclude any loan or line of credit in determining an applicant's available funding; or
(2) exclude an applicant from the grant of a charter solely because the applicant fails to demonstrate having a certain amount of current assets in cash.