[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5488 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5488

 To require each authorized public chartering agency to publish on the 
  Internet the financial expenditures of each charter school that is 
   authorized or approved by such agency and receives Department of 
                           Education funding.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2010

   Mr. Baca introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require each authorized public chartering agency to publish on the 
  Internet the financial expenditures of each charter school that is 
   authorized or approved by such agency and receives Department of 
                           Education funding.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Charter School Transparency and 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL FINANCIAL EXPENDITURES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the end of each 
school year, each authorized public chartering agency shall publish on 
the Internet, in a form and manner to be specified by the Secretary of 
Education, a detailed breakdown of the financial expenditures with 
respect to such school year of each charter school authorized or 
approved by such agency that received, directly or indirectly, funds 
made available by the Secretary during such school year.
    (b) Noncompliance.--If an agency does not comply with subsection 
(a) with respect to each charter school authorized or approved by the 
agency, the Secretary shall cease to make Federal funds available to 
any charter school authorized or approved by the agency until the 
agency complies with such subsection.
    (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section, the terms 
``authorized public chartering agency'' and ``charter school'' have the 
meanings given such terms in section 5210 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7221i).
    (d) Effective Date.--This section shall apply to school years that 
begin at least 60 days after the date of the enactment of this section.
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