By Gutierrez                                          H.B. No. 2231
       74R7420 ESH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to permitting the student/teacher ratio in grades
    1-3  kindergarten through four to be determined as an average.
    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 an average of
    1-8  22 students in a kindergarten, first, second, third, or fourth
    1-9  grade class. An average under this subsection is determined by
   1-10  dividing the total number of students enrolled in the district in
   1-11  the applicable grade level by the total number of classes offered
   1-12  in the district for that level.  This requirement shall not apply
   1-13  during the last 12 weeks of any school year.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
   1-15  school year.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.