Amend CSHB 256 (house committee printing) on page 1 by striking lines 6 and 7 and substituting the following:

SECTION 1.  Section 42.152, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and (c-3) to read as follows:

(b)  Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), for [For] purposes of this section, the number of educationally disadvantaged students is determined:

(1)  by averaging the best six months' numbers of students eligible for enrollment in the national school lunch program of free or reduced-price lunches for the preceding school year; or

(2)  in the manner provided by commissioner rule[, if no campus in the district participated in the national school lunch program of free or reduced-price lunches during the preceding school year].