Amend CSSB 893 (senate committee printing) as follows:

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Sections 28.053(a), (d), and (e), Education Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a)  A school participating in the program may be awarded[:

[(1)]  a one-time $3,000 equipment grant for providing a college advanced placement course or international baccalaureate course to be paid to a school based on need as determined by the commissioner[; and

[(2)     $100 for each student who scores a three or better on a college advanced placement test or four or better on an international baccalaureate examination].

(d)  A teacher participating in the program may be awarded:

(1)  subsidized teacher training, not to exceed $450 for each teacher, for a college advanced placement course or an international baccalaureate course; and

(2)  $50 for each student enrolled in the teacher's college advanced placement or international baccalaureate course who scores a three or better on the college advanced placement test or four or better on the international baccalaureate examination, as applicable, not to exceed a total amount of $2,000 each year [a one-time award of $250 for teaching a college advanced placement course or an international baccalaureate course for the first time; and

[(3)     a share of the teacher bonus pool, which shall be distributed by the teacher's school in shares proportional to the number of courses taught].

(e)  To be eligible for an award under Subsection (d)(2) [(d)], a teacher must teach a college advanced placement course or an international baccalaureate course at a school with a student enrollment in which at least 50 percent of the students are educationally disadvantaged.

(2)  In SECTION 25 of the bill, repealing provisions of the Education Code (page 7, line 29), strike "21.352(b) and 21.403(b)" and substitute "21.352(b), 21.403(b), and 28.053(b), (c), (f), and (g)".

(3)  Strike SECTION 26 of the bill, providing for applicability of the bill (page 7, lines 31 and 32), and substitute the following appropriately numbered SECTION:

SECTION ____.  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, this Act applies beginning with the 2016-2017 school year.

(b)  Section 28.053, Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.