Bill Text: TX HB3716 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authorization of certain adult high school charter school programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-25 - Left pending in committee [HB3716 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3716-Introduced.html
| By: Buckley | H.B. No. 3716 | |
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| relating to the authorization of certain adult high school charter | ||
| school programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 12, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 12.2551 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 12.2551. ALTERNATIVE AUTHORIZATION. (a) | ||
| Notwithstanding any other law and in addition to the other | ||
| permissible methods for establishing a charter or campus under this | ||
| chapter, the commissioner shall, on the basis of an application | ||
| submitted, grant a charter under the program to the entities | ||
| described by Subsection (b) to provide an adult education program | ||
| for individuals described by Section 12.258 to successfully | ||
| complete: | ||
| (1) a high school program that can lead to a diploma; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) career and technology education courses that can | ||
| lead to industry certification. | ||
| (b) The following entities are eligible to submit an | ||
| application under Subsection (a): | ||
| (1) the board of trustees of a school district or the | ||
| governing body of a home-rule school district that has entered into | ||
| a contract under Section 11.157 with a nonprofit entity described | ||
| by Section 12.256 to operate the program; | ||
| (2) a public junior college or public senior college | ||
| or university, as those terms are defined by Section 61.003, that | ||
| has entered into a contract with a nonprofit entity described by | ||
| Section 12.256 to operate the program; and | ||
| (3) a governmental entity that has entered into a | ||
| contract with a nonprofit entity described by Section 12.256 to | ||
| operate the program. | ||
| (c) The provisions of this chapter, including provisions | ||
| related to assessment, accountability, and funding, govern a | ||
| program authorized under this section. | ||
| (d) The provisions of Section 12.255 do not apply to a | ||
| charter granted under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all 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, 2023. | ||
