By: Nelson S.B. No. 995
73R3139 CAS-D
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) A school district may not enroll more than 22 students
1-8 in a kindergarten, first, second, third, or fourth grade class.
1-9 This requirement shall not apply during a <the last> 12-week period
1-10 <weeks> of the <any> school year selected by the district. Not
1-11 later than the 30th day after the first day of the 12-week period
1-12 for which a district is claiming an exemption from class size
1-13 limitations, the district shall give written notice to the
1-14 commissioner of education that the district is claiming an
1-15 exemption for the period stated in the notice.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-17 school year.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.