Amend CSHB 1842 (Senate committee report version) as follows:

1.   Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill to read as follows, and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION _.  Section 26.0031(c-1), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c-1)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school that has received an academically unacceptable performance rating for at least two consecutive school years may decline to pay the cost for a student of more than three yearlong electronic courses, or the equivalent, during any school year. This subsection does not:

(1)  limit the ability of the student to enroll in additional electronic courses at the student's cost; or

(2)  apply to a student enrolled in a full-time online program that was operating on January 1, 2013.

2.   Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill to read as follows, and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION __.  Section 30A.153(a-1), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a-1)  For purposes of Subsection (a), a school district or open-enrollment charter school that has received an academically unacceptable performance rating for at least two consecutive school years is limited to the funding described by that subsection for a student's enrollment in not more than three electronic courses during any school year, unless the student is enrolled in a full-time online program that was operating on January 1, 2013.

3.   Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill to read as follows, and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION __.  The changes in law made by this Act to Sections 26.0031(c-1) and 30A.153(a-1), Education Code, apply to electronic courses taken through the state virtual school network beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.