By: Hughes S.B. No. 1838
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  Except as provided by Section 12.103(c), a municipality
  shall consider an open-enrollment charter school a school district
  for purposes of zoning, permitting, code compliance, and
  development.
         SECTION 2.  Section 395.022(b), Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A school district and an open-enrollment charter school
  are [is] not required to pay impact fees imposed under this chapter
  unless the board of trustees of the district or the governing body
  of the charter school consents to the payment of the fees by
  entering a contract with the political subdivision that imposes the
  fees. The contract may contain terms the board of trustees or
  governing body considers advisable to provide for the payment of
  the fees.
         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.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.