Bill Text: TX SB2293 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of certain laws to and admission procedures for open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2293 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2293-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of certain laws to and admission procedures for open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2293 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2293-Comm_Sub.html
By: Fallon | S.B. No. 2293 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 29, 2019, | ||
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 2; | ||
April 29, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the applicability of certain laws to open-enrollment | ||
charter schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 12.1058(c), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or (b), an | ||
open-enrollment charter school operated by a tax exempt entity as | ||
described by Section 12.101(a)(3) is not considered to be a | ||
political subdivision, local government, or local governmental | ||
entity unless: | ||
(1) the applicable statute specifically states that | ||
the statute applies to an open-enrollment charter school; or | ||
(2) a provision in this chapter states that a specific | ||
statute applies to an open-enrollment charter school. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 617, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 617.0025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 617.0025. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER TO OPEN-ENROLLMENT | ||
CHARTER SCHOOL. (a) An open-enrollment charter school | ||
established under Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is a | ||
political subdivision for purposes of this chapter. | ||
(b) A member of the governing body of a charter holder, a | ||
member of the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school, | ||
and an officer of an open-enrollment charter school are considered | ||
to be officials of a political subdivision and an employee of an | ||
open-enrollment charter school is considered to be a public | ||
employee under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 3. With respect to Section 617.0025, Government | ||
Code, as added by this Act, if an open-enrollment charter school | ||
entered into a collective bargaining contract with a labor | ||
organization before the effective date of this Act, Chapter 617, | ||
Government Code, does not apply during the term of that contract. A | ||
collective bargaining contract entered into before the effective | ||
date of this Act may not be renewed. | ||
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. | ||
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