By: Hunter (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 2190

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019; April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 15, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2190 By: Powell

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to admission of certain students to an open-enrollment charter school.

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

SECTION 1. Section 12.117, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

(d) Notwithstanding Section 12.111(a)(13), an open-enrollment charter school may admit a child of an employee of the school as provided by this section regardless of whether the child resides in the geographic area served by the school.

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with 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, 2019.

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