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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to authorizing an exemption for open-enrollment charter |
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schools from certain municipal drainage requirements. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 552.053, Local Government Code, is |
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amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and |
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(b-2) to read as follows: |
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(b) The following may be exempt: |
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(1) this state; |
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(2) a county; |
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(3) a municipality; or |
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(4) [a] school districts and open-enrollment charter |
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schools [district]. |
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(b-1) For purposes of an exemption granted under Subsection |
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(b)(4), the exemption must be granted to both school districts and |
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open-enrollment charter schools. |
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(b-2) For purposes of this section, an "open-enrollment |
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charter school" means a school granted a charter under Subchapter D |
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or E, Chapter 12, Education Code. |
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SECTION 2. An exemption granted to a school district under |
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Section 552.053(b)(4), Local Government Code, as that section |
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existed before the effective date of this Act, automatically |
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extends to all open-enrollment charter schools located in the |
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municipality after the effective date of this Act unless the |
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municipality repeals the exemption before the effective date of |
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this Act. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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