By: Campbell S.B. No. 601

(In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2017; February 13, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; March 27, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 2; March 27, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to authorizing an exemption for open-enrollment charter schools from certain municipal drainage requirements.

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

SECTION 1. Section 552.053, Local Government Code, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows:

(b) The following may be exempt:

(1) this state;

(2) a county;

(3) a municipality; or

(4) [a] school districts and open-enrollment charter schools [district].

(b-1) For purposes of an exemption granted under Subsection (b)(4), the exemption must be granted to both school districts and open-enrollment charter schools.

(b-2) For purposes of this section, an "open-enrollment charter school" means a school granted a charter under Subchapter D or E, Chapter 12, Education Code.

SECTION 2. An exemption granted to a school district under Section 552.053(b)(4), Local Government Code, as that section existed before the effective date of this Act, automatically extends to all open-enrollment charter schools located in the municipality after the effective date of this Act unless the municipality repeals the exemption before the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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