By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 576
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the reporting of public school class size.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
 1-4     amended by adding Sections 25.113 and 25.114 to read as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 25.113.  REPORT TO AGENCY CONCERNING CLASS SIZE.  Each
 1-6     school district shall report to the agency the  number of students
 1-7     enrolled in each class, at the kindergarten level through grade 12,
 1-8     by grade level, subject, and special program, as applicable.
 1-9           Sec. 25.114.  NOTICE TO PARENTS CONCERNING CLASS SIZE.  Each
1-10     school district shall give to a parent written notice of the number
1-11     of students enrolled in each class or subject in which the parent's
1-12     child is enrolled as part of notice of the student's performance
1-13     required under Section 28.022(a)(2).
1-14           SECTION 2.  Subsections (b) and (c), Section 39.052,
1-15     Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-16           (b)  The report card shall include the following information
1-17     where applicable:
1-18                 (1)  the academic excellence indicators adopted under
1-19     Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-20                 (2)  average class size by grade level, subject, and
1-21     special program [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-22                 (3)  administrative and instructional costs per
1-23     student.
1-24           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
 2-1     dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
 2-2     portions of campus report cards annually to the parent, guardian,
 2-3     conservator, or other person having lawful control of each student
 2-4     at the campus.  On written request, the school district shall
 2-5     provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
 2-7     school year.
 2-8           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14     passage, and it is so enacted.