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.  Subsections (b) and (c), Section 39.052,
 1-4     Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (b)  The report card shall include the following information
 1-6     where applicable:
 1-7                 (1)  the academic excellence indicators adopted under
 1-8     Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
 1-9                 (2)  average class size by grade level and subject
1-10     [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-11                 (3)  administrative and instructional costs per
1-12     student.
1-13           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
1-14     dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
1-15     portions of campus report cards annually to the parent, guardian,
1-16     conservator, or other person having lawful control of each student
1-17     at the campus.  On written request, the school district shall
1-18     provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-20     school year.
1-21           SECTION 3.  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.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 576 passed the Senate on
         April 29, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 1; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 576 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
         _______________________________
                     Date
         _______________________________
                   Governor