By: Goldman (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 2102

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2023; May 11, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 18, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 3; May 18, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the establishment of a new open-enrollment charter school campus by certain charter holders and to the expansion of an open-enrollment charter school.

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

SECTION 1. Section 12.101(b-10), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b-10) The commissioner by rule shall allow a charter holder to provide written notice of the establishment of a new open-enrollment charter school campus under Subsection (b-4)(2) up to 36 [18] months before the date on which the campus is anticipated to open. Notice provided to the commissioner under this section does not obligate the charter holder to open a new campus.

SECTION 2. Section 12.114(d), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d) A charter holder may submit a request for approval for an expansion amendment up to 36 [18] months before the date on which the expansion will be effective. A request for approval of an expansion amendment does not obligate the charter holder to complete the proposed expansion.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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