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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