By Grusendorf H.B. No. 1111
75R5129 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to open-enrollment charter schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 12.101(a) and (b), Education Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) In accordance with this subchapter, the State Board of
1-7 Education may grant a charter on the application of an eligible
1-8 entity for an open-enrollment charter school to operate in a
1-9 facility of a commercial or nonprofit entity or a school district,
1-10 including a home-rule school district. In this subsection,
1-11 "eligible entity" means:
1-12 (1) an institution of higher education as defined
1-13 under Section 61.003;
1-14 (2) a private or independent institution of higher
1-15 education as defined under Section 61.003;
1-16 (3) an organization that is exempt from taxation under
1-17 Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section
1-18 501(c)(3)); [or]
1-19 (4) a governmental entity; or
1-20 (5) a group of teachers organized to operate a school.
1-21 (b) Each year, the [The] State Board of Education may [not]
1-22 grant not [a total of] more than 200 [20] charters for an
1-23 open-enrollment charter school. A charter renewal is not
1-24 considered a charter for purposes of this subsection.
2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.