88S40096 BDP-D
	By: Cunningham	H.B. No. 106

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the approval of open-enrollment charter schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 12.101(b-0), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(b-0)  The commissioner shall notify the State Board of
	Education of each charter the commissioner proposes to grant under
	this subchapter. Unless, before the 90th day after the date on
	which the board receives the notice from the commissioner,
	two-thirds [a majority] of the total membership [members] of the
	board [present and voting] vote against the grant of that charter,
	the commissioner's proposal to grant the charter takes effect. The
	board may not deliberate or vote on any grant of a charter that is
	not proposed by the commissioner.
	SECTION 2.  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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
	legislative session.

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