Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4006 Compare Versions

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1	1	87R6555 ANG-F
2	2	By: Rodriguez H.B. No. 4006
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the locations at which a new open-enrollment charter
8	8	school or campus may be established.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 12.101(b-4), Education Code, is amended
11	11	to read as follows:
12	12	(b-4) Notwithstanding Section 12.114, approval of the
13	13	commissioner under that section is not required for establishment
14	14	of a new open-enrollment charter school campus if the requirements
15	15	of this subsection are satisfied. A charter holder having an
16	16	accreditation status of accredited and at least 50 percent of its
17	17	student population in grades assessed under Subchapter B, Chapter
18	18	39, or at least 50 percent of the students in the grades assessed
19	19	having been enrolled in the school for at least three school years
20	20	may establish one or more new campuses under an existing charter
21	21	held by the charter holder if:
22	22	(1) the charter holder is currently evaluated under
23	23	the standard accountability procedures for evaluation under
24	24	Chapter 39 and received a district rating in the highest or second
25	25	highest performance rating category under Subchapter C, Chapter 39,
26	26	for three of the last five years with at least 75 percent of the
27	27	campuses rated under the charter also receiving a rating in the
28	28	highest or second highest performance rating category and with no
29	29	campus with a rating in the lowest performance rating category in
30	30	the most recent ratings;
31	31	(2) the new campus will not be located within five
32	32	miles of a school district's or open-enrollment charter school's
33	33	campus that is assigned an overall performance rating of B or higher
34	34	under Section 39.054 for the preceding school year;
35	35	(3) the charter holder provides written notice to the
36	36	commissioner of the establishment of any campus under this
37	37	subsection in the time, manner, and form provided by rule of the
38	38	commissioner; and
39	39	(4) [(3)] not later than the 60th day after the date
40	40	the charter holder provides written notice under Subdivision (3)
41	41	[(2)], the commissioner does not provide written notice to the
42	42	charter holder that the commissioner has determined that the
43	43	charter holder does not satisfy the requirements of this section.
44	44	SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is
45	45	amended by adding Section 12.1152 to read as follows:
46	46	Sec. 12.1152. LOCATION OF CERTAIN OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER
47	47	SCHOOLS. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
48	48	the commissioner may not grant a charter for an open-enrollment
49	49	charter school under this subchapter or approve a request for an
50	50	expansion amendment to establish a new open-enrollment charter
51	51	school campus under Section 12.114 for a school or campus that would
52	52	be located within five miles of a school district's or
53	53	open-enrollment charter school's campus that is assigned an overall
54	54	performance rating of B or higher under Section 39.054 for the
55	55	preceding school year.
56	56	SECTION 3. (a) Section 12.101(b-4), Education Code, as
57	57	amended by this Act, applies only to a new open-enrollment charter
58	58	school campus established on or after the effective date of this
59	59	Act.
60	60	(b) Section 12.1152, Education Code, as added by this Act,
61	61	applies only to an application for a charter for an open-enrollment
62	62	charter school or a request for approval of an expansion amendment
63	63	to establish a new open-enrollment charter school campus submitted
64	64	on or after the effective date of this Act.
65	65	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.