Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	By: Hinojosa H.B. No. 1179
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6	6	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	7	AN ACT
8	8	relating to the admission policy of an open-enrollment charter
9	9	school.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 12.111, Education Code, is amended by
12	12	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
13	13	follows:
14	14	(a) Each charter granted under this subchapter must:
15	15	(1) describe the educational program to be offered,
16	16	which must include the required curriculum as provided by Section
17	17	28.002;
18	18	(2) provide that continuation of the charter is
19	19	contingent on the status of the charter as determined under Section
20	20	12.1141 or 12.115 or under Chapter 39A;
21	21	(3) specify the academic, operational, and financial
22	22	performance expectations by which a school operating under the
23	23	charter will be evaluated, which must include applicable elements
24	24	of the performance frameworks adopted under Section 12.1181;
25	25	(4) specify:
26	26	(A) any basis, in addition to a basis specified
27	27	by this subchapter or Chapter 39A, on which the charter may be
28	28	revoked, renewal of the charter may be denied, or the charter may be
29	29	allowed to expire; and
30	30	(B) the standards for evaluation of a school
31	31	operating under the charter for purposes of charter renewal, denial
32	32	of renewal, expiration, revocation, or other intervention in
33	33	accordance with Section 12.1141 or 12.115 or Chapter 39A, as
34	34	applicable;
35	35	(5) prohibit discrimination in admission policy on the
36	36	basis of sex, national origin, ethnicity, religion, disability,
37	37	discipline history, academic, artistic, or athletic ability, or the
38	38	district the child would otherwise attend in accordance with this
39	39	code, although the charter may:
40	40	(A) provide for the exclusion of a student who is
41	41	currently:
42	42	(i) placed in a disciplinary alternative
43	43	education program or a juvenile justice alternative education
44	44	program; or
45	45	(ii) subject to an order of expulsion from a
46	46	school district or open-enrollment charter school [has a documented
47	47	history of a criminal offense, a juvenile court adjudication, or
48	48	discipline problems under Subchapter A, Chapter 37]; and
49	49	(B) provide for an admission policy that requires
50	50	a student to demonstrate artistic ability if the school specializes
51	51	in performing arts;
52	52	(6) specify the grade levels to be offered;
53	53	(7) describe the governing structure of the program,
54	54	including:
55	55	(A) the officer positions designated;
56	56	(B) the manner in which officers are selected and
57	57	removed from office;
58	58	(C) the manner in which members of the governing
59	59	body of the school are selected and removed from office;
60	60	(D) the manner in which vacancies on that
61	61	governing body are filled;
62	62	(E) the term for which members of that governing
63	63	body serve; and
64	64	(F) whether the terms are to be staggered;
65	65	(8) specify the powers or duties of the governing body
66	66	of the school that the governing body may delegate to an officer;
67	67	(9) specify the manner in which the school will
68	68	distribute to parents information related to the qualifications of
69	69	each professional employee of the program, including any
70	70	professional or educational degree held by each employee, a
71	71	statement of any certification under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, held
72	72	by each employee, and any relevant experience of each employee;
73	73	(10) describe the process by which the person
74	74	providing the program will adopt an annual budget;
75	75	(11) describe the manner in which an annual audit of
76	76	the financial and programmatic operations of the program is to be
77	77	conducted, including the manner in which the person providing the
78	78	program will provide information necessary for the school district
79	79	in which the program is located to participate, as required by this
80	80	code or by commissioner rule, in the Public Education Information
81	81	Management System (PEIMS);
82	82	(12) describe the facilities to be used;
83	83	(13) describe the geographical area served by the
84	84	program;
85	85	(14) specify any type of enrollment criteria to be
86	86	used;
87	87	(15) provide information, as determined by the
88	88	commissioner, relating to any management company that will provide
89	89	management services to a school operating under the charter; and
90	90	(16) specify that the governing body of an
91	91	open-enrollment charter school accepts and may not delegate
92	92	ultimate responsibility for the school, including the school's
93	93	academic performance and financial and operational viability, and
94	94	is responsible for overseeing any management company providing
95	95	management services for the school and for holding the management
96	96	company accountable for the school's performance.
97	97	(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(5), a charter granted
98	98	under this subchapter may provide for the exclusion of a student
99	99	from an open-enrollment charter school campus that includes a
100	100	child-care facility based on the student's conviction for a
101	101	criminal offense that would preclude the student from being
102	102	admitted to a school district campus that includes a child-care
103	103	facility.
104	104	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
105	105	school year.
106	106	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
107	107	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
108	108	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
109	109	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
110	110	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.