85R27375 PAM-F

By: Allen H.B. No. 4111

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4111:

By: Allen C.S.H.B. No. 4111

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to revoking the charter of an open-enrollment charter school based on certain performance during the 2015-2016 school year.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 12.115, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c-2) to read as follows:

(c-2) For purposes of revocation under Subsection (c)(1), performance for the 2015-2016 school year may not be considered unacceptable if, but for a data error reported by the open-enrollment charter school to the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS), the school would have received an acceptable rating under the accountability procedures applicable to the school. If the school demonstrates that the school would have received an acceptable rating but for the data error reported by the school, the commissioner shall assign the school the corrected rating. This subsection expires September 1, 2019.

SECTION 2. Section 12.115(c-2), Education Code, as added by this Act, stays a proceeding to revoke a charter or accept the surrender of a charter in lieu of revocation pending on the effective date of this Act until the open-enrollment charter school is given an opportunity to demonstrate a data error claim.

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.