Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3163 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Stucky H.B. No. 3163
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to campuses of an open-enrollment charter school.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Section 12.101(b-4), Education Code, is amended
9	9	by adding a new Subsection (4) to read as follows:
10	10	(b-4) Notwithstanding Section 12.114, approval of the
11	11	commissioner under that section is not required for establishment
12	12	of a new open-enrollment charter school campus if the requirements
13	13	of this subsection are satisfied. A charter holder having an
14	14	accreditation status of accredited and at least 50 percent of its
15	15	student population in grades assessed under Subchapter B, Chapter
16	16	39, or at least 50 percent of the students in the grades assessed
17	17	having been enrolled in the school for at least three school years
18	18	may establish one or more new campuses under an existing charter
19	19	held by the charter holder if:
20	20	(1) the charter holder is currently evaluated under
21	21	the standard accountability procedures for evaluation under
22	22	Chapter 39 and received a district rating in the highest or second
23	23	highest performance rating category under Subchapter C, Chapter 39,
24	24	for three of the last five years with at least 75 percent of the
25	25	campuses rated under the charter also receiving a rating in the
26	26	highest or second highest performance rating category and with no
27	27	campus with a rating in the lowest performance rating category in
28	28	the most recent ratings;
29	29	(2) the charter holder provides written notice to the
30	30	commissioner of the establishment of any campus under this
31	31	subsection in the time, manner, and form provided by rule of the
32	32	commissioner; and
33	33	(3) not later than the 60th day after the date the
34	34	charter holder provides written notice under Subdivision (2), the
35	35	commissioner does not provide written notice to the charter holder
36	36	that the commissioner has determined that the charter holder does
37	37	not satisfy the requirements of this section.; and
38	38	(4) the charter holder cannot establish one or more
39	39	new campuses under an existing charter held by the charter holder if
40	40	the new campuses would be located within a public school district
41	41	that is currently evaluated under the standard accountability
42	42	procedures for evaluation under Chapter 39 and received a district
43	43	rating in the highest or second highest performance rating category
44	44	under Subchapter C, Chapter 39, for three of the last five years
45	45	with at least 75 percent of the campuses rated in the public school
46	46	district receiving a rating in the highest or second highest
47	47	performance rating category and with no campus with a rating in the
48	48	lowest performance rating category in the most recent ratings.
49	49	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
50	50	school year.
51	51	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
52	52	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
53	53	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
54	54	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
55	55	Act takes effect September 1, 2021.