Bill Text: TX HB478 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 478 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the limit on the number of charters that may be granted for an open-enrollment charter school.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Referred to Public Education [HB478 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB478-Introduced.html

	83R2552 CAS-D

	By: Harper-Brown	H.B. No. 478



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the limit on the number of charters that may be granted
	for an open-enrollment charter school.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 12.101(b), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b) The State Board of Education may grant a charter for an
	open-enrollment charter school only to an applicant that meets any
	financial, governing, and operational standards adopted by the
	commissioner under this subchapter. [~~The State Board of Education~~
	~~may not grant a total of more than 215 charters for an~~
	~~open-enrollment charter school.~~]
	SECTION 2. Section 12.156(b), Education Code, is repealed.
	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, 2013.