By: Shelton H.B. No. 3780
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of and requirements for expansion of
certain open-enrollment charter schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.101, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
follows:
(b) The State Board of Education may grant a charter for an
open-enrollment charter school only to an applicant that meets any
financial, governing, and operational standards adopted by the
commissioner under this subchapter. [The State Board of Education
may not grant a total of more than 215 charters for an open
enrollment charter school.]
(b-1) A charter holder may establish one or more new
open-enrollment charter school campuses under a charter without
applying for authorization from the State Board of Education if:
(1) the open-enrollment charter school district is
rated as academically acceptable or higher under Subchapter D,
Chapter 39; and
(2) no campus operating under the charter has been
rated as academically unacceptable for any two of the three
preceding school years or such a campus has been closed; and
(3) the charter holder provides written notice, in the
time, manner, and form provided by commissioner rule, to the State
Board of Education and the commissioner of the establishment of any
campus under this subsection.
SECTION 2. This act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
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, 2009.