By: Campbell  S.B. No. 601          (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2017; February 13, 2017,   read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental   Relations; March 27, 2017, reported favorably by the following   vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 2; March 27, 2017, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote    A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to authorizing an exemption for open-enrollment charter   schools from certain municipal drainage requirements.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 552.053, Local Government Code, is   amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and   (b-2) to read as follows:          (b)  The following may be exempt:                (1)  this state;                (2)  a county;                (3)  a municipality; or                (4)  [a] school districts and open-enrollment charter   schools [district].          (b-1)  For purposes of an exemption granted under Subsection   (b)(4), the exemption must be granted to both school districts and   open-enrollment charter schools.          (b-2)  For purposes of this section, an "open-enrollment   charter school" means a school granted a charter under Subchapter D   or E, Chapter 12, Education Code.          SECTION 2.  An exemption granted to a school district under   Section 552.053(b)(4), Local Government Code, as that section   existed before the effective date of this Act, automatically   extends to all open-enrollment charter schools located in the   municipality after the effective date of this Act unless the   municipality repeals the exemption before the effective date of   this Act.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.     * * * * *