Amend SB 2219 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 45.003, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows:
(g) Notwithstanding Section 52.072, Election Code, and Section 1251.052, Government Code, the question of whether to approve the issuance of bonds for the construction, acquisition, and equipment of school buildings in the district and the purchase of necessary sites for school buildings may be submitted to the voters in a single ballot proposition, except that bonds for each of the following purposes must be stated in a separate proposition:
(1) the construction, improvement, or renovation of a stadium;
(2) the construction, improvement, or renovation of a natatorium;
(3) the construction, improvement, or renovation of another recreational facility other than a gymnasium;
(4) the construction, improvement, or renovation of a performing arts facility;
(5) the construction, improvement, or renovation of housing for teachers as determined by the district to be necessary to have a sufficient number of teachers for the district; and
(6) an acquisition or update of technology equipment, other than equipment used for school security purposes.
(h) The question of whether to approve the issuance of bonds for a building described by Subsection (g)(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) must be printed on the ballot as a separate ballot proposition regardless of whether that building is proposed as part of the same complex or building that contains traditional classroom facilities. Each separate ballot proposition required by this subsection must state the principal amount of the bonds to be issued that constitutes the cost for construction of that portion of the building or complex attributable to the building described by Subsection (g)(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) or to the traditional classroom facilities, as applicable.
(2) In SECTION 2 of the bill, in amended Section 52.072(e), Election Code, strike page 1, lines 44 through 49, and substitute the following:
(1) with respect to a proposition seeking voter approval of the issuance of bonds:
(A) the total principal amount of the bonds to be authorized, if approved; and
(B) a plain language [general] description of the single specific purpose [the purposes] for which the bonds are to be authorized, if approved;
(3) In SECTION 2 of the bill, in amended Section 52.072(e), Election Code (page 1, line 50), strike "[(2)]" and substitute "(2)".
(4) In SECTION 2 of the bill, in amended Section 52.072(e), Election Code (page 1, line 61), strike "(2) [(3)]" and substitute "(3)".
(5) In SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 1251.052, Government Code (page 2, line 27), between "FORM." and "A proposition", insert "(a)".
(6) In SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 1251.052, Government Code (page 2, line 29), strike "a general description of the purposes" and substitute "a plain language description of each single specific purpose".
(7) In SECTION 4 of the bill, following added Section 1251.052, Government Code (page 2, between lines 44 and 45), insert the following:
(b) Each single specific purpose for which bonds requiring voter approval are to be issued must be printed on the ballot as a separate proposition.