Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1		-	By: Hughes, et al. S.B. No. 1177
2		-	(Koop)
	1	+	S.B. No. 1177
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5		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	4		AN ACT
7	5		relating to requirements for charter schools established for the
8	6		benefit of certain juvenile offenders.
9	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	8		SECTION 1. Section 221.0071, Human Resources Code, is
11	9		amended to read as follows:
12	10		Sec. 221.0071. CHARTER SCHOOL. (a) Notwithstanding any
13	11		other law and in addition to the number of charters allowed under
14	12		Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, the commissioner of
15	13		education may grant a charter on the application of a detention,
16	14		correctional, or residential facility established only for
17	15		juvenile offenders under Section 51.12, 51.125, or 51.126, Family
18	16		Code, or an eligible entity that has entered into a contract with a
19	17		facility described by this subsection.
20	18		(b) If a local detention, correctional, or residential
21	19		facility described by Subsection (a) or an eligible entity that has
22	20		entered into a contract with a facility described by Subsection (a)
23	21		applies for a charter, the facility or the eligible entity must
24	22		provide all educational opportunities and services, including
25	23		special education instruction and related services, that a school
26	24		district is required under state or federal law to provide for
27	25		students residing in the district through a charter school operated
28	26		in accordance with and subject to Subchapter D, Chapter 12,
29	27		Education Code.
30	28		(c) The commissioner of education shall adopt a form and
31	29		procedure to allow a detention, correctional, or residential
32	30		facility described by Subsection (a) or an eligible entity that has
33	31		entered into a contract with a facility described by Subsection (a)
34	32		to apply for a charter. The application form and procedure must be
35	33		comparable to the applicable requirements of Section 12.110,
36	34		Education Code, and must include any requirements provided under
37	35		Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code.
38	36		(d) A charter school operating under a charter granted under
39	37		this section is entitled to receive open-enrollment charter school
40	38		funding under Chapter 42, Education Code, in the same manner as an
41	39		open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D,
42	40		Chapter 12, Education Code.
43	41		(e) The commissioner of education shall adopt rules
44	42		necessary to implement this section, including rules that modify
45	43		the requirements for charter schools provided under Chapter 12,
46	44		Education Code, as necessary to allow a charter school to operate in
47	45		a detention, correctional, or residential facility described by
48	46		Subsection (a).
49	47		(f) In this section, "eligible entity" has the meaning
50	48		assigned by Section 12.101(a), Education Code.
51	49		SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
	50	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	51	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	52	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1177 passed the Senate on
	53	+	May 11, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	54	+	______________________________
	55	+	Secretary of the Senate
	56	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1177 passed the House on
	57	+	May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two
	58	+	present not voting.
	59	+	______________________________
	60	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	61	+	Approved:
	62	+	______________________________
	63	+	Date
	64	+	______________________________
	65	+	Governor