By Bailey                                             H.B. No. 3382

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to adoption by school districts of a local policy

 1-3     concerning campus charters and campus program charters.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 12, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 12.065 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 12.065.  (a)  Each school district shall adopt a campus

 1-8     charter and campus program charter policy.  The policy must

 1-9     specify:

1-10                 (1)  the process to be followed for approval of a

1-11     campus charter or campus program charter;

1-12                 (2)  the statutory requirements with which a campus

1-13     charter or campus program charter must comply;

1-14                 (3)  the items that must be included in a proposed

1-15     charter;

1-16                 (4)  the items that must be included in a charter

1-17     application; and

1-18                 (5)  the means by which parents and classroom teachers

1-19     will be informed of their right under Section 12.052 to petition

1-20     for approval of a campus charter or campus program charter,

1-21     including at a minimum the notice required by subsection (b) of

1-22     this section and notice of any assistance available from the

 2-1     district in the preparation of a charter application.

 2-2           (b)  Each school district shall provide each parent, teacher,

 2-3     and administrator with a copy of this subchapter and with a copy of

 2-4     the local policy required by this section.

 2-5           (c)  Each school district shall adopt a campus charter and

 2-6     campus program charter policy as required by this section not later

 2-7     than January 1, 1998.

 2-8           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.