Bill Text: TX SB2062 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain charter holders to provide combined services for certain adult and high school dropout recovery programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB2062 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB2062-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 2062 | ||
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| relating to authorizing certain charter holders to provide combined | ||
| services for certain adult and high school dropout recovery | ||
| programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 12.137 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 12.137. CERTAIN CHARTER HOLDERS AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE | ||
| COMBINED SERVICES FOR CERTAIN ADULT AND HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT | ||
| RECOVERY PROGRAMS. (a) This section applies only to: | ||
| (1) an open-enrollment charter school designated as a | ||
| dropout recovery school as described by Section 12.1141(c) if the | ||
| enrollment of the school consists only of students 17 years of age | ||
| and older; and | ||
| (2) an adult education program provided under a high | ||
| school diploma and industry certification charter school pilot | ||
| program under Section 29.259. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, an entity granted a | ||
| charter to operate a charter school described by Subsection (a)(1) | ||
| and a charter to provide an adult education program described by | ||
| Subsection (a)(2) may, for the purpose of providing services to | ||
| students enrolled in the charter school and the adult education | ||
| program, place students, regardless of the age of the students, at | ||
| the same facility and in the same classroom setting or learning | ||
| environment, the same cafeteria, or the same activity sanctioned by | ||
| the school and the program. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2062 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 4, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2062 passed the House on | ||
| May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 3, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
