By: Truitt (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 2366
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2011;
May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 19, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of an open-enrollment charter school
operated by a municipality to give a preference in admissions to
children of employees of the municipality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.117, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) An open-enrollment charter school authorized by a
charter granted under this subchapter to a municipality:
(1) is considered a work-site open-enrollment charter
school for purposes of federal regulations regarding admissions
policies that apply to open-enrollment charter schools receiving
federal funding; and
(2) notwithstanding Subsection (a), may admit
children of employees of the municipality to the school before
conducting a lottery to fill remaining available positions,
provided that the number of children admitted under this
subdivision constitutes only a small percentage, as may be further
specified by federal regulation, of the school's total enrollment.
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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