Amend Amendment No. 221 to CSSB 1 as follows:

(1) On page   III-2, of the bill pattern for the Texas Education Agency, decrease funding from the instructional materials fund from Strategy B.2.1, Technology and Instructional Materials by $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2018.

(1) On page VII-31 of the bill pattern for the Texas Workforce Commission decrease funding from the Workforce Development Goal Strategy A.3.1 SKILLS DEVELOPMENT by $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2018.

(2) On page III-2 of the bill pattern for the Texas Education Agency, increase funding for Strategy B.3.2.: AGENCY OPERATIONS by $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2019.

(2) On page   III-7, amend the following rider

8. Textbooks and Instructional Materials. Except as explicitly allowed elsewhere in this Act, any amount expended pursuant to Texas Education Code, §31.021, including expenditures for instructional materials administration, shall be paid out of the state instructional materials fund appropriated for that purpose. A transfer of funds from the available school fund to the state instructional materials fund is authorized in an amount which, together with other revenues of the state instructional materials fund, is sufficient to finance the sum-certain appropriation from the state instructional materials fund for each fiscal year. Penalties assessed by the State Board of Education shall be deposited to the credit of the state instructional materials fund.

In accordance with Texas Education Code §31.0211 and §31.0214, the commissioner shall allocate the funds available in the state instructional materials fund to school districts and charter schools for each student enrolled in the district or charter school on a date during the preceding year specified by the commissioner and shall adjust the instructional materials allotment of school districts and charter schools experiencing high enrollment growth according to rules adopted by the commissioner.

From funds appropriated from the state instructional materials fund, the commissioner may set aside an amount not to exceed $2,500,000 for the 2018-19 biennium for the continued support and delivery of online college readiness materials in English language arts and reading, mathematics, science, and social studies.

From funds appropriated above in Strategy B.2.1, Technology/Instructional Materials, $1,093,176,025 $1,091,176,025 from the state instructional materials fund is allocated in the 2018-19 biennium for textbooks and instructional materials.

From funds appropriated above in A.2.3, Students with Disabilities, an amount not to exceed $13,500,000 in federal funds in the 2018-19 biennium is allocated for the purchase of Braille, large-type, and related materials for students with special needs.

The commissioner shall provide juvenile justice alternative education programs with instructional materials necessary to support classroom instruction in those programs. The cost of the instructional materials shall be funded with state instructional materials funds appropriated to the agency for the 2018-19 biennium.

Revenue from frees collected under the authority of Texas Education Code §31.0221 pertaining to the midcycle review and adoption of textbooks are hereby appropriated to the Texas Education Agency for the purpose of administering the midcycle review and adoption process.

The Texas Education Agency is hereby appropriated any balances held in the state instructional materials fund on August   31, 2017 for use in fiscal year 2018 for the same purposes.

Any unexpended balances as of August   31, 2018 are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2019 for the same purposes.

(3) On page III-23, add the following rider:

____. Contingency for HB 2730. Contingent on enactment of HB 2730, or similar legislation relating to the authority of the Commissioner of Education to create career and technical credentials and certificates that may be earned through a career and technology education program and to a study to identify unmet needs in career and technology education programs, by the Eighty-Fifth Legislature, Regular Session, in addition to funds appropriated above, $1,000,000 in each fiscal year of the 2018-19 biennium, is appropriated out of the general revenue fund from Strategy B.3.2, Agency Operations to implement this legislation.