Bill Text: TX HB2663 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to revocation of charters for certain open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-26 - Left pending in committee [HB2663 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2663-Introduced.html
83R10667 CAS-D | ||
By: Farney | H.B. No. 2663 |
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relating to revocation of charters for certain open-enrollment | ||
charter schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 12.115, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the [ |
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commissioner may modify, place on probation, revoke, or deny | ||
renewal of the charter of an open-enrollment charter school if the | ||
commissioner determines that the charter holder: | ||
(1) committed a material violation of the charter, | ||
including failure to satisfy accountability provisions prescribed | ||
by the charter; | ||
(2) failed to satisfy generally accepted accounting | ||
standards of fiscal management; | ||
(3) failed to protect the health, safety, or welfare | ||
of the students enrolled at the school; or | ||
(4) failed to comply with this subchapter or another | ||
applicable law or rule. | ||
(c) The commissioner shall revoke the charter of an | ||
open-enrollment charter school if, for the three preceding school | ||
years: | ||
(1) a campus operating under the charter has been | ||
assigned an unacceptable performance rating under Subchapter C, | ||
Chapter 39; or | ||
(2) the charter holder has been assigned a financial | ||
accountability performance rating indicating performance that is | ||
lower than satisfactory under Subchapter D, Chapter 39. | ||
(d) A campus of an open-enrollment charter school rated as | ||
academically unacceptable under Subchapter D, Chapter 39, as that | ||
subchapter existed January 1, 2009, for the 2010-2011 school year | ||
is considered to have been assigned an unacceptable performance | ||
rating for that school year under Subsection (c)(1). This | ||
subsection expires September 1, 2015. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
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, 2013. |