Bill Text: TX HB2297 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the waiting list for an open-enrollment charter school.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-15 - Referred to Public Education [HB2297 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2297-Introduced.html
| 85R9730 SRS-D | ||
| By: Uresti | H.B. No. 2297 | |
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| relating to the waiting list for an open-enrollment charter school. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 12.1172 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 12.1172. WAITING LIST FOR ADMISSION TO OPEN-ENROLLMENT | ||
| CHARTER SCHOOL. (a) An open-enrollment charter school with a | ||
| waiting list for admission must make available on its Internet | ||
| website: | ||
| (1) the school's current waiting list, with each | ||
| student on the list represented by a unique identification number | ||
| that does not reveal the student's identity; and | ||
| (2) a description of the process used to select | ||
| students from the waiting list. | ||
| (b) An open-enrollment charter school shall provide the | ||
| parent of or person standing in parental relation to a student to be | ||
| included on the waiting list with: | ||
| (1) information on how to access the publicly | ||
| available waiting list required by this section; and | ||
| (2) the student's unique identification number. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2017. | ||
