Amend HB 160 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  On page 4, line 5, strike "$1,000,000,000" and substitute "$996,000,000".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS and cross-references to those SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY: ONLINE CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM. The amount of $4,000,000 is appropriated to the Texas Education Agency from money received by this state from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (42 U.S.C. Section 802) established under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) and deposited to the credit of the Coronavirus Relief Fund No. 325 for the purpose of providing grants, to the extent authorized by other law, to school districts to pay for career and technology education courses provided through the state virtual school network under Chapter 30A, Education Code, that develop job-ready skills in fields impacted by the coronavirus disease pandemic during the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act.