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.