85R9726 KJE-D
 
  By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 2208
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the establishment of a new open-enrollment charter
  school or campus.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 12.1101, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 12.1101.  NOTIFICATION OF CHARTER APPLICATION OR
  ESTABLISHMENT OF CAMPUS; OPEN DATE(a) The commissioner by rule
  shall adopt a procedure for providing notice to the following
  persons on receipt by the commissioner of an application for a
  charter for an open-enrollment charter school under Section 12.110,
  [or of] notice of the establishment of a campus as authorized under
  Section 12.101(b-4), or a request for approval of an expansion
  amendment to establish a new campus submitted under Section 12.114:
               (1)  the board of trustees of each school district from
  which the proposed open-enrollment charter school or campus is
  likely to draw students, as determined by the commissioner; and
               (2)  each member of the legislature that represents the
  geographic area to be served by the proposed school or campus, as
  determined by the commissioner.
         (b)  The procedure adopted under Subsection (a) must require
  notice to be provided not later than 24 months before the date on
  which the open-enrollment charter school or campus is anticipated
  to open. 
         (c)  A proposed open-enrollment charter school or campus for
  which notice is provided under Subsection (a) may not open:
               (1)  before the anticipated opening date provided in
  the notice; or
               (2)  before June 1 or later than October 15 of any year.
         SECTION 2.  Section 12.1101, Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies beginning with a new open-enrollment charter
  school or campus that is anticipated to open for the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.