By:  Munoz                                            H.B. No. 1668
       73R5526 CAS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to class size limitations at certain grade levels in
    1-3  public schools.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 16.054(b), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  Except as otherwise provided by this subsection or under
    1-8  Subsection (d) of this section, a <A> school district may not
    1-9  enroll more than 22 students in a kindergarten, first, second,
   1-10  third, or fourth grade class.  A school district whose average
   1-11  daily attendance has increased one percent or more over the
   1-12  preceding school year and whose value of taxable property, as
   1-13  determined under Section 11.86 of this code, is $135,000 or less
   1-14  per weighted student in average daily attendance may not enroll
   1-15  more than 26 students in a kindergarten, first, second, third, or
   1-16  fourth grade class nor have an average enrollment of more than 22
   1-17  students at the kindergarten, first, second, third, or fourth grade
   1-18  level.  Those requirements  <This requirement> shall not apply
   1-19  during a 12-week period <the last 12 weeks> of the <any> school
   1-20  year selected by the district.  Not later than the 30th day after
   1-21  the first day of the 12-week period for which a district is
   1-22  claiming an exemption from class size limitations, the district
   1-23  shall give written notice to the commissioner of education that the
   1-24  district is claiming an exemption for the period stated in the
    2-1  notice.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
    2-3  school year.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.