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.