Bill Text: TX SB1567 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability to open-enrollment charter schools of certain laws regarding local governments and political subdivisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-28 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1567 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1567-Comm_Sub.html
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1567 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 23, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 28, 2015, | ||
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; | ||
April 28, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the applicability to open-enrollment charter schools of | ||
certain laws regarding local governments and political | ||
subdivisions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 12.1058 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.1058. APPLICABILITY OF OTHER LAWS. (a) An | ||
open-enrollment charter school is considered to be: | ||
(1) a local government for purposes of Chapter 791, | ||
Government Code; | ||
(2) a local government for purposes of Chapter 2259, | ||
Government Code, except that an open-enrollment charter school may | ||
not issue public securities as provided by Section 2259.031(b), | ||
Government Code; and | ||
(3) a political subdivision for purposes of Chapter | ||
172, Local Government Code. | ||
(b) An open-enrollment charter school may elect to extend | ||
workers' compensation benefits to employees of the school through | ||
any method available to a political subdivision under Chapter 504, | ||
Labor Code. An open-enrollment charter school that elects to | ||
extend workers' compensation benefits as permitted under this | ||
subsection is considered to be a political subdivision for all | ||
purposes under Chapter 504, Labor Code. An open-enrollment charter | ||
school that self-insures either individually or collectively under | ||
Chapter 504, Labor Code, is considered to be an insurance carrier | ||
for purposes of Subtitle A, Title 5, Labor Code. | ||
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, 2015. | ||
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