By Bivins                                        S.B. No. 519

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                                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.