By: Shapiro S.B. No. 949
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the applicability of municipal zoning ordinances to
1-3 open-enrollment charter schools.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 12.103, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 12.103. APPLICABILITY OF LAWS, [AND] RULES, AND
1-8 ORDINANCES TO OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOL. (a) An
1-9 open-enrollment charter school is subject to federal and state laws
1-10 and rules governing public schools and to municipal zoning
1-11 ordinances governing public schools, except that an open-enrollment
1-12 charter school is subject to this code and rules adopted under this
1-13 code only to the extent the applicability to an open-enrollment
1-14 charter school of a provision of this code or a rule adopted under
1-15 this code is specifically provided.
1-16 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a campus of an
1-17 open-enrollment charter school located in whole or in part in a
1-18 municipality with a population of 20,000 or less is not subject to
1-19 municipal zoning ordinances governing public schools.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.