Language Page 90, after line 49, insert:"Authority: Title 2.2, Chapter 24, Code of Virginia. Payments out of this appropriation for educational telecommunications shall be authorized by the Secretary of Education. The Department of Education shall participate in the negotiations and be a signatory to contracts for elementary and secondary educational telecommunications."
Explanation(This amendment provides $2.6 million the first year and $2.6 million the second year from the general fund to restore funding to Educational Telecommunications.)