Bill Text: TX SB2117 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to approval of school district and charter school partnerships to operate school district campuses and programs and to eligibility for state funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB2117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2117-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to approval of school district and charter school partnerships to operate school district campuses and programs and to eligibility for state funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB2117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2117-Comm_Sub.html
86R26787 CAE-D | ||
By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 2117 | |
(Bohac) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2117: No. |
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relating to approval of school district and charter school | ||
partnerships to operate school district campuses and programs and | ||
to eligibility for state funding. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11.157, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11.157. CONTRACTS FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. (a) The | ||
board of trustees of an independent school district may contract | ||
with a public or private entity for that entity to provide | ||
educational services for the district. | ||
(b) A school district and open-enrollment charter school | ||
may apply to the commissioner for approval to jointly operate a | ||
campus or campus program. During each school year, the | ||
commissioner may approve not more than three contracts for a school | ||
district and open-enrollment charter school to jointly operate a | ||
campus or campus program and to receive funding as provided by | ||
Subsection (d). This subsection does not apply to the renewal of a | ||
contract previously approved by the commissioner. | ||
(c) A school district contract with an open-enrollment | ||
charter school to jointly operate a campus or campus program during | ||
the 2017-2018 school year is considered to be a contract approved by | ||
the commissioner and is eligible to receive funding as provided by | ||
Subsection (d). | ||
(d) A school district that contracts with the governing body | ||
of an open-enrollment charter school to jointly operate a campus or | ||
campus program qualifies for funding under Section 42.2511 for each | ||
student or the portion of each student's school day under the | ||
direction of the open-enrollment charter school if the most recent | ||
accountability rating of: | ||
(1) the campus was a C or higher under Subchapter C, | ||
Chapter 39; and | ||
(2) the open-enrollment charter school was a C or | ||
higher under Subchapters C and D, Chapter 39. | ||
(e) The commissioner may adopt rules and collect data to | ||
determine the portion of funding a school district is entitled to | ||
under Subsection (d) if the district contracts with an | ||
open-enrollment charter school to jointly operate a campus program. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 42.2511(a) and (b), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) This section applies only to: | ||
(1) a school district and an open-enrollment charter | ||
school that enter into a contract to operate a district campus as | ||
provided by Section 11.174; [ |
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(2) a charter granted by a school district for a | ||
program operated by an entity that has entered into a contract under | ||
Section 11.174, provided that the district does not appoint a | ||
majority of the governing body of the charter holder; and | ||
(3) a school district that contracts with an | ||
open-enrollment charter school to jointly operate a campus or | ||
campus program as provided by Section 11.157(d). | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or | ||
Chapter 41, a school district subject to this section is entitled to | ||
receive for each student in average daily attendance at the campus | ||
or program described by Subsection (a) an amount equivalent to the | ||
difference, if the difference results in increased funding, | ||
between: | ||
(1) the amount described by Section 12.106; and | ||
(2) the amount to which the district would be entitled | ||
under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
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, 2019. |