82R1703 CAS-D
By: Jackson, Bonnen H.B. No. 291
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring a public hearing in the geographical area
proposed for an open-enrollment charter school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.110(c), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) As part of the application procedure, the board:
(1) to determine parental and community support for a
charter for an open-enrollment charter school, shall hold a public
hearing in the geographical area that, under Subsection (b) and
Section 12.111(a)(14), is described in the application form; and
(2) may require a petition supporting a charter for
the [a] school signed by a specified number of parents or guardians
of school-age children residing in the area [in which a school is
proposed or may hold a public hearing to determine parental support
for the school].
SECTION 2. Section 12.114, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Before the commissioner may approve a charter revision
request filed wholly or partly to request approval to move the
location of an open-enrollment charter school out of the
geographical area described in the school's charter or to add an
additional school campus at a location that is not within the
geographical area described in the school's charter, the agency
shall hold a public hearing in the geographical area in which the
charter holder proposes to operate the school.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an open-enrollment charter school charter application or request
for a charter revision, as applicable, filed on or after the
effective date of this Act. A charter application or request for a
charter revision, as applicable, filed before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
application or request for a revision was filed, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.