Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 955	Senate Author:  Schwertner
Effective:  6-16-15	House Sponsor:  Miller, Rick et al.

            Senate Bill 955 amends the Education Code to expand the locations at which a public senior college or university may operate an open-enrollment charter school from a location in the same county in which the campus of the college or university is located to another location in any Texas county. The bill requires the commissioner of education, in evaluating an application to operate an open-enrollment charter school in a county other than the county in which the campus of the applicant is located, to consider the locations of existing open-enrollment charter schools, as appropriate, to avoid duplication of services in the proposed area, and the need of the community in the proposed area to have an additional open-enrollment charter school.