AMENDMENT FOR PRINTED BILL
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___________________ moved that HB 1137 be amended as follows:


    On the printed bill, delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:

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    Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Department of Education for a one-time payment to the postsecondary technical institutes. The Secretary of Education shall distribute this funding based on actual full time student enrollment in fiscal year 2012.

    Section 2. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of five million eight hundred twenty-nine thousand three hundred eighteen dollars ($5,829,318) or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Department of Education for a one-time payment to school districts. The Secretary of Education shall distribute this funding based on actual fall student enrollment in fiscal year 2012.

    Section 3. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Department of Education to fund the Teach for America grant program.

    Section 4. The secretary of the Department of Education shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized in this Act.

    Section 5. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated shall revert in accordance with § 4-8.

    Section 6. Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval."