Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1	1		By: Taylor of Collin S.B. No. 1061
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2017; March 6, 2017,
3		-	read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
4		-	May 3, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5		-	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1; May 3, 2017,
6		-	sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
8		-	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1061 By: Taylor of Collin
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11	4		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
12	5		AN ACT
13	6		relating to the powers and duties of the commissioner of education
14	7		regarding granting additional charters for open-enrollment charter
15	8		schools.
16	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
17	10		SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is
18	11		amended by adding Section 12.1015 to read as follows:
19	12		Sec. 12.1015. ADDITIONAL CHARTER FOR OPEN-ENROLLMENT
20	13		CHARTER SCHOOLS ALLOWED. (a) Notwithstanding Section
21	14		12.101(b-3), the commissioner may grant more than one charter for
22	15		an open-enrollment charter school to a charter holder if the
23	16		additional charter is for an open-enrollment charter school that
24	17		has a distinct purpose or student population.
25	18		(b) The commissioner by rule shall identify various types of
26	19		open-enrollment charter schools to be used to determine if an
27	20		open-enrollment charter school has a distinct purpose or will serve
28	21		a different student population for purposes of this section. The
29	22		commissioner may award a charter under Subsection (a) if the
30	23		commissioner determines the charter will serve a distinct purpose
31	24		or student population regardless of whether the type of school for
32	25		which the charter is sought has been identified by the
33	26		commissioner.
34	27		(c) The rules adopted under Subsection (b) must account for
35	28		the following types of open-enrollment charter schools:
36	29		(1) an open-enrollment charter school that serves a
37	30		general student population through a distinctly different
38	31		educational model;
39	32		(2) an alternative education open-enrollment charter
40	33		school that serves students who:
41	34		(A) have dropped out of school; or
42	35		(B) are students at risk of dropping out of
43	36		school, as defined by Section 29.081;
44	37		(3) an open-enrollment charter school operating under
45	38		a charter granted under Section 12.1014;
46		-	(4) a virtual open-enrollment charter school; ~~and~~
	39	+	(4) a virtual open-enrollment charter school;
47	40		(5) any other open-enrollment charter school that
48	41		serves a distinct student population, as determined by commissioner
49		-	rule.
	42	+	rule; and
	43	+	(6) an open-enrollment charter school that has assumed
	44	+	the operations of another charter holder's open-enrollment charter
	45	+	school or school district campus and is implementing a campus
	46	+	turnaround plan approved by the commissioner under Chapter 39.
	47	+	(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c)(6), the transfer of an
	48	+	existing charter school to a charter holder authorized under this
	49	+	section does not affect the performance rating assigned for the
	50	+	current school year or previous school years or any intervention or
	51	+	sanction actions determined by the commissioner under this
	52	+	subchapter or Chapter 39.
50	53		SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
51	54		school year.
52	55		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect only if a specific
53	56		appropriation for the implementation of the Act is provided in a
54	57		general appropriations act of the 85th Legislature.
55	58		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
56	59		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
57	60		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
58	61		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
59	62		Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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