84R10040 JSL-D
By: Miller of Fort Bend H.B. No. 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to permissible locations of open-enrollment charter
schools created by institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.152, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 12.152. AUTHORIZATION. In accordance with this
subchapter and Subchapter D, the commissioner may grant a charter
on the application of:
(1) a public senior college or university for an
open-enrollment charter school to operate on the campus of the
public senior college or university or at another location in any
county in this state [in the same county in which the campus of the
public senior college or university is located]; or
(2) a public junior college for an open-enrollment
charter school to operate on the campus of the public junior college
or at another location in any county in this state [in the same
county in which the campus of the public junior college is located].
SECTION 2. Section 12.152, Education Code, as amended by
this Act:
(1) applies to an application for a new charter
pending on or submitted on or after the effective date of this Act;
and
(2) authorizes the holder of a charter granted before
the effective date of this Act to operate a charter school at a
location in any county of this state, provided that if the charter
holder seeks to operate an additional campus and the commissioner's
approval of the expansion is required under Chapter 12, Education
Code, the charter holder must obtain the commissioner's approval.
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, 2015.