Bill Text: TX SB1061 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of the commissioner of education regarding granting additional charters for open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-19 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [SB1061 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1061-Engrossed.html
By: Taylor of Collin | S.B. No. 1061 |
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relating to the powers and duties of the commissioner of education | ||
regarding granting additional charters for open-enrollment charter | ||
schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 12.1015 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.1015. ADDITIONAL CHARTER FOR OPEN-ENROLLMENT | ||
CHARTER SCHOOLS ALLOWED. (a) Notwithstanding Section | ||
12.101(b-3), the commissioner may grant more than one charter for | ||
an open-enrollment charter school to a charter holder if the | ||
additional charter is for an open-enrollment charter school that | ||
has a distinct purpose or student population. | ||
(b) The commissioner by rule shall identify various types of | ||
open-enrollment charter schools to be used to determine if an | ||
open-enrollment charter school has a distinct purpose or will serve | ||
a different student population for purposes of this section. The | ||
commissioner may award a charter under Subsection (a) if the | ||
commissioner determines the charter will serve a distinct purpose | ||
or student population regardless of whether the type of school for | ||
which the charter is sought has been identified by the | ||
commissioner. | ||
(c) The rules adopted under Subsection (b) must account for | ||
the following types of open-enrollment charter schools: | ||
(1) an open-enrollment charter school that serves a | ||
general student population through a distinctly different | ||
educational model; | ||
(2) an alternative education open-enrollment charter | ||
school that serves students who: | ||
(A) have dropped out of school; or | ||
(B) are students at risk of dropping out of | ||
school, as defined by Section 29.081; | ||
(3) an open-enrollment charter school operating under | ||
a charter granted under Section 12.1014; | ||
(4) a virtual open-enrollment charter school; | ||
(5) any other open-enrollment charter school that | ||
serves a distinct student population, as determined by commissioner | ||
rule; and | ||
(6) an open-enrollment charter school that has assumed | ||
the operations of another charter holder's open-enrollment charter | ||
school or school district campus and is implementing a campus | ||
turnaround plan approved by the commissioner under Chapter 39. | ||
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c)(6), the transfer of an | ||
existing charter school to a charter holder authorized under this | ||
section does not affect the performance rating assigned for the | ||
current school year or previous school years or any intervention or | ||
sanction actions determined by the commissioner under this | ||
subchapter or Chapter 39. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect only if a specific | ||
appropriation for the implementation of the Act is provided in a | ||
general appropriations act of the 85th Legislature. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. |