85S12690 KJE-D
By: Hinojosa H.B. No. 394
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notification of an application for a charter for an
open-enrollment charter school or of the establishment of an
open-enrollment charter school campus and to an annual report by
open-enrollment charter schools on transfer students and waiting
lists for admission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.1101, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 12.1101. NOTIFICATION OF CHARTER APPLICATION OR
ESTABLISHMENT OF CAMPUS. (a) The commissioner by rule shall adopt a
procedure for providing notice to the following persons on receipt
by the commissioner of an application for a charter for an
open-enrollment charter school under Section 12.110 or of notice of
the establishment of a campus as authorized under Section
12.101(b-4):
(1) the board of trustees of each school district from
which the proposed open-enrollment charter school or campus is
likely to draw students, as determined by the commissioner; and
(2) each member of the legislature that represents the
geographic area to be served by the proposed school or campus, as
determined by the commissioner.
(b) The notice provided under Subsection (a) must identify
the public elementary school or schools in closest proximity to the
address or intersection at which the proposed open-enrollment
charter school or campus is likely to be located.
(c) Not later than the 30th day after the date on which an
applicant or charter holder acquires property intended to serve as
the location of a proposed open-enrollment charter school or campus
for which notice was provided under Subsection (a), the applicant
or charter holder shall provide notice of the address of the
acquired property to the board of trustees of each school district
provided notice under that subsection.
(d) An open-enrollment charter school or campus may not open
unless notice has been provided for that school or campus in
accordance with this section.
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 12.1191 to read as follows:
Sec. 12.1191. REPORT ON TRANSFERS AND WAITING LIST. Each
open-enrollment charter school shall annually report to the
commissioner in accordance with commissioner rule:
(1) the number of students who transferred from the
school during the year for which the report is made and the school
to which each student transferred; and
(2) the school's current waiting list for admission,
if any, with each student on the list represented by a unique
identification number that does not reveal the student's identity.
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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.