76R10012 CAS-D By Najera, et al. H.B. No. 1120 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1120: By Sadler C.S.H.B. No. 1120 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to exceptions to public school class size limits granted 1-3 by the commissioner of education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.112(d), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (d) On application of a school district, the commissioner 1-8 may except the district from the limit in Subsection (a) if the 1-9 commissioner finds the limit works an undue hardship on the 1-10 district. Under an exception granted under this subsection, a 1-11 district may not enroll more than 24 students in a class. An 1-12 exception expires at the end of the semester for which it is 1-13 granted, and the commissioner may not grant an exception for more 1-14 than one semester at a time. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-16 school year. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.