By Krusee                                             H.B. No. 3646
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to charters for open-enrollment charter schools to serve
 1-3     certain student populations.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 12.1011, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
 1-7     follows:
 1-8           (a)  In addition to the other charters authorized under this
 1-9     subchapter, in accordance with this subchapter the State Board of
1-10     Education may grant:
1-11                 (1)  not more than 100 charters for open-enrollment
1-12     charter schools that adopt an express policy providing for the
1-13     admission of students eligible for a public education grant under
1-14     Subchapter G, Chapter 29; [and]
1-15                 (2)  additional charters for open-enrollment charter
1-16     schools for which a marjority [at least 75 percent] of the
1-17     [prospective] student population [, as specified in the proposed
1-18     charter,] will be students who are econcomically disadvantaged.
1-19     [have dropped out of school or are at risk of dropping out of
1-20     school as defined by Section 29.081.]
1-21           SECTION 2.  the importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.