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TX HB756

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/12/2024

Primary Sponsor

Diego Bernal

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Origin

House of Representatives

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Limits open-enrollment charter schools to requesting expansion amendments once per biennium (every two years) instead of annually, with expansions including increasing student enrollment, adding new campuses, relocating existing campuses more than five miles, extending grade levels, or expanding geographic boundaries

  • Prohibits the commissioner from approving expansion requests if the charter school has not served at least the lesser of the state average or the largest local school district's average of students eligible for special education services during each of the two preceding years

  • Removes the commissioner's authority to waive the special education enrollment requirements for expansion approval

  • Eliminates the requirement for the commissioner to provide notification when a charter school establishes a new campus, limiting notification requirements to only new charter applications

  • Applies only to charter revision requests submitted on or after September 1, 2025, with earlier requests governed by previous law

Legislative Description

Relating to the requirements for the revision of a charter for an open-enrollment charter school.

Education

Last Action

Referred to Public Education

3/5/2025

Committee Referrals

Public Education3/5/2025

Full Bill Text

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