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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Allow Out-of-state Tuition Students To Enroll in Public Charter Schools’
Amend the bill in section 1 in paragraph J in the 2nd and 3rd lines (page 1, lines 5 and 6 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "full capacity under the public charter school's application under section 2407 or if" and inserting the following: 'capacity under the public charter school's application under section 2407 and'
Amend the bill in section 2 in paragraph C in the 4th and 5th lines (page 1, lines 14 and 15 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "full capacity under the public charter school's application under section 2407 or if" and inserting the following: 'capacity under the public charter school's application under section 2407 and'
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 3.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the minority report of the committee. The amendment clarifies that a public charter school may enroll students from outside the State and accept tuition for those students if there is space available because the public charter school did not reach its capacity under the public charter school's application and the public charter school's proposed vision and plans according to the public charter school's application would be enhanced by the attendance of students from outside the State.
The amendment strikes the provision in the bill that allows a public charter school to operate in association with a private school if the public charter school complies with the provisions in law concerning public charter schools, the public charter school's operations comply with the public charter school's contract and the public charter school's finances are accounted for separately from the finances of the private school.