85R12930 MK-F     By: Hughes S.B. No. 1177       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to requirements for charter schools established for the   benefit of certain juvenile offenders.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 221.0071, Human Resources Code, is   amended by adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows:          (c)  The commissioner of education shall adopt a form and   procedure to allow a detention, correctional, or residential   facility described by Subsection (a) to apply for a charter. The   application form and procedure must be comparable to the applicable   requirements of Section 12.110, Education Code.           (d)  A charter school operating under a charter granted under   this section is entitled to receive open-enrollment charter school   funding under Chapter 42, Education Code, in the same manner as an   open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D,   Chapter 12, Education Code.           (e)  The commissioner of education shall adopt rules   necessary to implement this section, including rules that modify   the requirements for charter schools provided under Chapter 12,   Education Code, as necessary to allow a charter school to operate in   a detention, correctional, or residential facility described by   Subsection (a).          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.