Amend HB 3643 (senate committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, adding Subchapter I, Chapter 48, Education Code (page 2, between lines 27 and 28), insert the following:

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ___.  The Texas Commission on Virtual Education, as created by Subchapter I, Chapter 48, Education Code, as added by this Act, is required to implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the agency may, but is not required to, support the commission using other appropriations available for that purpose.