By Bivins S.B. No. 519
75R2410 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the number of charters for an open-enrollment charter
1-3 school that the State Board of Education may grant.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Effective September 1, 1997, Section 12.101(b),
1-6 Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The State Board of Education may not grant a total of
1-8 more than 60 [20] charters for an open-enrollment charter school.
1-9 SECTION 2. Effective September 1, 1998, Section 12.101(b),
1-10 Education Code, as amended by Section 1 of this Act, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (b) The State Board of Education may not grant a total of
1-13 more than 100 [60] charters for an open-enrollment charter school.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.