By Hochberg                                           H.B. No. 2551
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the applicability of open-records and open-meetings
 1-3     statutes to open-enrollment charter schools.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 12.105, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read:
 1-7           (b)  The governing body of the school is considered a
 1-8     governmental body for purposes of Chapters 551 and 552, Government
 1-9     Code.  Any requirements in those chapters relating to school
1-10     districts, school boards and school children shall also apply to
1-11     open enrollment charter schools and children attending such
1-12     schools.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
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.