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1	1		By: West, Menéndez S.B. No. 605
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	2	+	(In the Senate - Filed December 13, 2024; February 3, 2025,
	3	+	read first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16;
	4	+	April 7, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	5	+	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 7, 2025,
	6	+	sent to printer.)
	7	+	Click here to see the committee vote
	8	+	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 605 By: Parker
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6	11		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	12		AN ACT
8	13		relating to the establishment of a new open-enrollment charter
9	14		school campus by certain charter holders and to the expansion of an
10	15		open-enrollment charter school.
11	16		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	17		SECTION 1. Section 12.101(b-4), Education Code, is amended
13	18		to read as follows:
14	19		(b-4) Notwithstanding Section 12.114, approval of the
15	20		commissioner under that section is not required for establishment
16	21		of a new open-enrollment charter school campus if the requirements
17	22		of this subsection are satisfied. A charter holder having an
18	23		accreditation status of accredited and at least 50 percent of its
19	24		student population in grades assessed under Subchapter B, Chapter
20	25		39, or at least 50 percent of the students in the grades assessed
21	26		having been enrolled in the school for at least three school years
22	27		may establish one or more new campuses under an existing charter
23	28		held by the charter holder if:
24	29		(1) the charter holder is currently evaluated under
25	30		the standard accountability procedures for evaluation under
26	31		Chapter 39 and received a district rating in the highest or second
27	32		highest performance rating category under Subchapter C, Chapter 39,
28	33		for three of the last five years with at least 75 percent of the
29	34		campuses rated under the charter also receiving a rating in the
30	35		highest or second highest performance rating category and with no
31	36		campus with a rating in the lowest performance rating category in
32	37		the most recent ratings;
33	38		(2) the charter holder and each campus operating under
34	39		the charter are not currently subject to an action of the
35	40		commissioner described by Section 39A.002(7) or (8);
36	41		(3) [(2)] the charter holder provides written notice
37	42		to the commissioner of the establishment of any campus under this
38	43		subsection in the time, manner, and form provided by rule of the
39	44		commissioner; and
40	45		(4) [(3)] not later than the 60th day after the date
41	46		the charter holder provides written notice under Subdivision (3)
42	47		[(2)], the commissioner does not provide written notice to the
43	48		charter holder that the commissioner has determined that the
44	49		charter holder does not satisfy the requirements of this section.
45	50		SECTION 2. Section 12.114, Education Code, is amended by
46	51		adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
47	52		(c-1) The commissioner may not approve a request for
48	53		approval of an expansion amendment if the charter holder or any
49	54		campus operating under the charter is currently subject to an
50	55		action of the commissioner described by Section 39A.002(7) or (8).
51	56		SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
52	57		a new open-enrollment charter school campus established or a
53	58		request for approval of an expansion amendment by an
54	59		open-enrollment charter school submitted on or after the effective
55	60		date of this Act. A campus established or a request submitted
56	61		before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
57	62		effect on the date the campus was established or request submitted,
58	63		and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
59	64		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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