1-1     By:  Shapiro                                           S.B. No. 949
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2001; February 28, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; May 11, 2001, reported favorably, as amended, by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Shapiro
 1-7           Amend S.B. No. 949, page 1, line 19, by inserting "governing
 1-8     public schools" after the word "ordinances".
 1-9                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-10                                   AN ACT
1-11     relating to the applicability of municipal zoning ordinances to
1-12     open-enrollment charter schools.
1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14           SECTION 1.  Section 12.103, Education Code, is amended to
1-15     read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 12.103.  APPLICABILITY OF LAWS, [AND] RULES, AND
1-17     ORDINANCES TO OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOL.  An open-enrollment
1-18     charter school is subject to federal and state laws and rules
1-19     governing public schools and to municipal zoning ordinances, except
1-20     that an open-enrollment charter school is subject to this code and
1-21     rules adopted under this code only to the extent the applicability
1-22     to an open-enrollment charter school of a provision of this code or
1-23     a rule adopted under this code is specifically provided.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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