Amend CSHB 1605 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 40, line 27, strike "an allotment under Section 48.158" and substitute "additional state aid under Section 48.308".
(2) Strike page 48, line 11, through page 51, line 9, and substitute the following appropriately numbered SECTION:
SECTION ____. Subchapter G, Chapter 48, Education Code, is amended by adding Sections 48.307 and 48.308 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.307. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR STATE-APPROVED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. (a) For each student enrolled in the district, a school district is entitled to additional state aid for each school year in an amount equal to $40, or a greater amount provided by appropriation, to procure instructional material that has been:
(1) reviewed by the agency under Section 31.023;
(2) placed on the list of approved instructional materials maintained by the State Board of Education under Section 31.022;
(3) designated by the State Board of Education under Section 31.022 as being included or capable of being included in an instructional materials parent portal under Section 31.154; and
(4) acquired from a publisher, manufacturer, or other entity that has not been found to violate Section 31.151.
(b) A school district is entitled to the amount of state aid provided by Subsection (a) each school year, regardless of whether the district uses the amount during the school year for which the amount was provided.
(c) Additional state aid provided under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the district's instructional materials and technology account maintained by the commissioner under Section 31.0212 and may be accessed only for the procurement of instructional materials in accordance with this section.
(d) Funds provided to a school district under this section must be spent in compliance with the requirements for the use of funds provided under this section and Section 31.0211.
Sec. 48.308. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL. (a) Subject to Section 31.0751, a school district is entitled to additional state aid for each school year in an amount not to exceed $20 for each student for the costs incurred or for which the district is obligated to pay during the school year in which the aid is provided for the printing and shipping of open education resource instructional material made available under Subchapter B-1, Chapter 31.
(b) The amount to which a school district is entitled under this section may not exceed actual costs incurred by the district or for which the district is obligated to pay during the school year for which the funds were provided.
(c) Additional state aid provided under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the district's instructional materials and technology account maintained by the commissioner under Section 31.0212 and may be accessed only for the procurement of instructional materials in accordance with this section.
(d) Funds provided to a school district under this section must be spent in compliance with the requirements for the use of funds provided under this section and Section 31.0211.
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 48.277(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) For purposes of calculating maintenance and operations revenue under Subsection (a), the commissioner shall:
(1) for purposes of Subsections (a)(1) and (2), use the following applicable school year:
(A) in a school year ending in an even-numbered year, the 2019-2020 school year; and
(B) in a school year ending in an odd-numbered year, the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year, whichever is greater;
(2) include all state and local funding, except for any funding resulting from:
(A) reimbursement for disaster remediation costs under former Sections 41.0931 and 42.2524;
(B) an adjustment for rapid decline in taxable value of property under former Section 42.2521; [and]
(C) an adjustment for property value affected by a state of disaster under former Section 42.2523; and
(D) additional state aid under Section 48.307 or 48.308;
(3) adjust the calculation to reflect a reduction in tax effort by a school district; and
(4) if a school district or open-enrollment charter school receives a waiver relating to eligibility requirements for the national free or reduced-price lunch program under 42 U.S.C. Section 1751 et seq., use the numbers of educationally disadvantaged students on which the district's or school's entitlement to compensatory education funds was based for the school year before the school year in which the district or school received the waiver, adjusted for estimated enrollment growth.
(4) On page 52, lines 23 and 24, strike "Sections 48.157 and 48.158, Education Code, as added by this Act" and substitute "Sections 48.307 and 48.308, Education Code, as added by this Act, and Section 48.277(b), Education Code, as amended by this Act".