Bill Text: TX HB478 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the limit on the number of charters that may be granted for an open-enrollment charter school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Referred to Public Education [HB478 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB478-Introduced.html

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83R2552 CAS-D
By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 478

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the limit on the number of charters that may be granted
for an open-enrollment charter school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.101(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The State Board of Education may grant a charter for an
open-enrollment charter school only to an applicant that meets any
financial, governing, and operational standards adopted by the
commissioner under this subchapter. [The State Board of Education
may not grant a total of more than 215 charters for an
open-enrollment charter school.]
SECTION 2. Section 12.156(b), Education Code, is repealed.
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.