Amend HB 4064 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering 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 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:

(A)  was operating on January 1, 2013; or

(B)  requires that educators providing the instruction have completed a specified number of hours per year of continuing education related to digital technology under Section 21.0543.

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 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:

(1)  was operating on January 1, 2013; or

(2)  requires that educators providing the instruction have completed a specified number of hours per year of continuing education related to digital technology under Section 21.0543.