By: Aycock (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1550
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2011;
April 26, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 5, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 5, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to participation in state travel service contracts by
open-enrollment charter schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2171.055(f), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(f) An officer or employee of a public junior college, as
defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, of an open-enrollment
charter school established under Subchapter D, Chapter 12,
Education Code, or of a school district who is engaged in official
business may participate in the commission's contract for travel
services. The commission may charge a participating public junior
college, open-enrollment charter school, or school district a fee
not to exceed the costs incurred by the commission in providing
services under this subsection. The commission shall periodically
review fees and shall adjust them as needed to ensure recovery of
costs incurred in providing services to public junior colleges,
open-enrollment charter schools, and school districts under this
subsection. The commission shall deposit the fees collected under
this subsection to the credit of the public education travel
account. The public education travel account is an account in the
general revenue fund that may be appropriated only for the purposes
of this chapter. The commission shall adopt rules and make or amend
contracts as necessary to administer this subsection.
SECTION 2. 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, 2011.
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