85R12930 MK-F
By: Hughes S.B. No. 1177
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requirements for charter schools established for the
benefit of certain juvenile offenders.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 221.0071, Human Resources Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows:
(c) The commissioner of education shall adopt a form and
procedure to allow a detention, correctional, or residential
facility described by Subsection (a) to apply for a charter. The
application form and procedure must be comparable to the applicable
requirements of Section 12.110, Education Code.
(d) A charter school operating under a charter granted under
this section is entitled to receive open-enrollment charter school
funding under Chapter 42, Education Code, in the same manner as an
open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D,
Chapter 12, Education Code.
(e) The commissioner of education shall adopt rules
necessary to implement this section, including rules that modify
the requirements for charter schools provided under Chapter 12,
Education Code, as necessary to allow a charter school to operate in
a detention, correctional, or residential facility described by
Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.