By Armbrister                                   S.B. No. 1189

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the reporting of public school class size.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 25.112, Education Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  Each school district shall report to the agency the

 1-7     actual number of students enrolled in each class by grade level,

 1-8     subject, and special program.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 39.052(b), Education Code, is amended to

1-10     read as follows:

1-11           (b)  The report card shall include the following information

1-12     where applicable:

1-13                 (1)  the academic excellence indicators adopted under

1-14     Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);

1-15                 (2)  actual class sizes by grade level, subject, and

1-16     special program [student/teacher ratios]; and

1-17                 (3)  administrative and instructional costs per

1-18     student.

1-19           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-20     school year.

1-21           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.