By: Campbell S.B. No. 601
(In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2017; February 13, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; March 27, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 2; March 27, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing an exemption for open-enrollment charter
schools from certain municipal drainage requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 552.053, Local Government Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and
(b-2) to read as follows:
(b) The following may be exempt:
(1) this state;
(2) a county;
(3) a municipality; or
(4) [a] school districts and open-enrollment charter
schools [district].
(b-1) For purposes of an exemption granted under Subsection
(b)(4), the exemption must be granted to both school districts and
open-enrollment charter schools.
(b-2) For purposes of this section, an "open-enrollment
charter school" means a school granted a charter under Subchapter D
or E, Chapter 12, Education Code.
SECTION 2. An exemption granted to a school district under
Section 552.053(b)(4), Local Government Code, as that section
existed before the effective date of this Act, automatically
extends to all open-enrollment charter schools located in the
municipality after the effective date of this Act unless the
municipality repeals the exemption before the effective date of
this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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