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Amend CSHB 21 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 12.1062 to read as follows:
Sec. 12.1062. STATE FUNDING PROHIBITED. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title or other law, the commissioner may not provide state funding to an open-enrollment charter school. An open-enrollment charter school may charge tuition.
(2) On page 18, strike lines 20-23, and substitute the following:
(2) use a maintenance and operations tax rate ("TR") of $1 for the South Texas Independent School District and each special-purpose school district established under Subchapter H, Chapter 11; and
(3) On page 20, between lines 13 and 14, insert the following appropriately numbered subdivision and renumber subsequent subdivisions of SECTION 24 of the bill accordingly:
(____) Section 12.106;