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2004 SESSION
HB 380 Charter School Excellence and Accountability Act; changes in provisions.
Introduced by: L. Scott Lingamfelter | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Charter School Excellence and Accountability Act. Amends the charter schools statute to (i) allow charter schools to contract with private institutions of higher education for school facilities, services, and other undertakings, including construction; (ii) add evidence of the support of school division residents for a charter school to those items that may be included in proposed charter agreement materials; (iii) allow charter applicants to submit the proposed charter agreement to the Board of Education for review and comment, and to require inclusion of the Board's findings in the charter application to the local school board; (iv) delete the authority of school boards to limit the number of charter schools within the division and the statutory cap on the maximum number of charter schools (two schools or not more than 10 percent of the total number of schools in the division, whichever is greater); (v) delete the requirement that half the charter schools in the division be designed to benefit at-risk pupils, and instead direct school boards to give priority to applications designed to benefit these students, particularly those at-risk students currently served by schools that have not achieved full accreditation; (vi) direct the Board to report annually to the General Assembly the number of public charter school applications granted and denied, and the reasons for any such denials; and (vii) increase the maximum charter term from three to five years. The Board of Education must set objective criteria for the review and comment on the applications; the Board's comments cannot relate to whether the local school board should approve the application. The bill also amends the State and Local Government Conflicts of Interests Act to allow the governing body, administrators, and other personnel within a public charter school to have an ownership or financial interest in renovating, lending, granting, or leasing public charter school facilities, if such interest has been disclosed in the public charter school application. The provisions of this bill will sunset on July 1, 2009.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/12/04 043995380 pdf | impact statement
- 02/11/04 House: Committee substitute printed 048704380-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/23/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB380ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/20/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/12/04 043995380
- 01/14/04 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/04 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 1
- 02/11/04 House: Reported from Education with substitute (15-Y 6-N)
- 02/11/04 House: Committee substitute printed 048704380-H1
- 02/12/04 House: Read first time
- 02/13/04 House: Read second time
- 02/13/04 House: Committee substitute agreed to 048704380-H1
- 02/13/04 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB380H1
- 02/14/04 House: Read third time and passed House (62-Y 36-N)
- 02/14/04 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (62-Y 36-N)
- 02/14/04 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/16/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 03/04/04 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with amendments (13-Y 2-N)
- 03/08/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/04 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (36-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/04 Senate: Read third time
- 03/09/04 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 03/09/04 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 03/09/04 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/09/04 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (32-Y 7-N)
- 03/09/04 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (32-Y 7-N)
- 03/09/04 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/10/04 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (79-Y 21-N)
- 03/10/04 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (79-Y 21-N)
- 03/23/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB380ER)
- 03/24/04 House: Enrolled
- 03/24/04 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/04 House: Signed by Speaker
- 04/12/04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 530 (effective 7/1/04)
- 04/20/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530)