Honorable Larry Taylor, Chair, Senate Committee on Education
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB1177 by Hughes (Relating to requirements for charter schools established for the benefit of certain juvenile offenders.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would require the Commissioner of Education to adopt a form and procedure to allow a detention, correctional, or residential facility, or an eligible entity that they contract with, to apply for a charter. The bill would require such a charter to be entitled to open-enrollment charter school funding under Chapter 42 of the Education Code in the same manner as an open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D, Chapter 12, of the Education Code.
This analysis assumes any costs related to the implementation of the bill would not be significant.
The bill would take effect September 1, 2017.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.