Bill Text: TX HB5189 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an open-enrollment charter school expansion amendment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to Public Education [HB5189 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5189-Introduced.html
By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 5189 |
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relating to an open-enrollment charter school expansion amendment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 12.114, Education Code, is amended to | ||
add Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) A request for approval for an expansion amendment shall | ||
be accompanied by prior-years data, specified by the commissioner | ||
in the request form, regarding the open-enrollment charter school's | ||
allotment and expenditures for special education and its special | ||
education practices, including enrollment, discipline, and | ||
staffing. The commissioner shall thoroughly review and make public | ||
the charter school's special education funding and practices, | ||
including the data submitted, before acting on the request. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2023. |