Relating to the approval of a request for the revision of a charter for an open-enrollment charter school.

SB 590 modifies Texas law governing revisions to open-enrollment charter school charters. It requires the Texas Education Commissioner to notify the State Board of Education (SBOE) whenever proposing to approve a charter revision, giving the SBOE 60 days to vote against it (with a majority vote needed to block the revision). If the SBOE doesn’t act within that window, the revision takes effect. The bill also restricts the SBOE to voting only on revisions proposed by the Commissioner, not on unsolicited requests. This directly affects charter school operators seeking to revise their charters and the SBOE’s role in the approval process.