H.B. No. 885
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the guarantee of refinanced open-enrollment charter
  school bonds by the permanent school fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 12.135(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  A charter district may apply for bonds issued under
  Chapter 53 for the open-enrollment charter school, including
  refunding and refinanced bonds, to be guaranteed by the permanent
  school fund as provided by Chapter 45.
         SECTION 2.  Section 45.052(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  On approval by the commissioner, bonds issued under
  Subchapter A by a school district or Chapter 53 for a charter
  district, including refunding and refinanced bonds, are guaranteed
  by the corpus and income of the permanent school fund.
         SECTION 3.  Section 45.0532, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  The commissioner may not approve charter district
  refunding or refinanced bonds for guarantee under this subchapter
  in a total amount that exceeds one-half of the total amount
  available for the guarantee of charter district bonds under
  Subsection (a).
         SECTION 4.  This Act applies only to a bond issued, refunded,
  or refinanced on or after the effective date of this Act by an
  open-enrollment charter school designated as a charter district
  under Section 12.135, Education Code. A bond issued, refunded, or
  refinanced before the effective date of this Act by an
  open-enrollment charter school designated as a charter district is
  governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and that
  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 885 was passed by the House on April
  30, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 1, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 885 was passed by the Senate on May
  17, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 1.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor