SRC-JRN C.S.S.B. 519 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   C.S.S.B. 519
By: Bivins
Education
3-31-97
Committee Report (Substituted)


DIGEST 

Currently, the State Board of Education (board) is prohibited from
granting more than 20 charters for open-enrollment schools.  Over 240
requests for applications for open-enrollment charter schools are on file
in the charter school office at the Texas Education Agency.  This bill
increases the maximum number of charters for open-enrollment schools that
the board is authorized to grant. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, C.S.S.B. 519 increases the maximum number of open-enrollment
charter schools that the State Board of Education is authorized to grant. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 12.101(b), Education Code, effective September
1, 1997, to prohibit the State Board of Education (board) from granting
more than 50 charters for an open-enrollment charter school, rather than
20.   

SECTION 2. Amends Section 12.101(b), Education Code, effective September
1, 1998, to prohibit the board from providing more than 80 charters for an
open-enrollment charter school, rather than 60. 

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.
  Effective date: 90 days after adjournment.

SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

SECTION 1.

Amends Section 12.101(b), Education Code, to prohibit the board from
granting more than 50, rather than 20, charters for an open-enrollment
charter school, effective September 1, 1997. 

SECTION 2. 

Amends Section 12.101(b), Education Code, to prohibit the board from
granting more than 80, rather than 60, charters for an open-enrollment
school, effective September 1, 1998.