TITLE: Relating to admission of certain students to an open-enrollment charter school.

SUMMARY: Relating to admission of certain students to an open-enrollment charter school.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to admission of certain students to an open-enrollment charter school. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 12.117, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: (d) Notwithstanding Section 12.111(a)(13), an open-enrollment charter school may admit a child of an employee of the school as provided by this section regardless of whether the child resides in the geographic area served by the school. SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 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.