2002 House Bill 5955

Introduced in the House

April 24, 2002

Introduced by Rep. Jerry Vander Roest (R-63)

To require that if a charter school contracts with a private management company to manage the school the company must have experience, capacity, and be financially sound; that the charter school retains legal counsel in the contract negotiations; that the contract be subject to the Freedom of Information Act; and that the charter school have a different auditor from the one used by the management company. The bill also establishes that a member of a charter school board is a public officer who must take an oath of office, and that if the charter school loses its authorization its property reverts to the state.

Referred to the Committee on Education