76R16845 BDH-D                          
         By Armbrister                                          S.B. No. 576
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 576:
         By Oliveira                                        C.S.S.B. No. 576
                                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.  Subsections (b) and (c), Section 39.052,
 1-5     Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  The report card shall include the following information
 1-7     where applicable:
 1-8                 (1)  the academic excellence indicators adopted under
 1-9     Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-10                 (2)  average class size by grade level and subject
1-11     [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-12                 (3)  administrative and instructional costs per
1-13     student.
1-14           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
1-15     dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
1-16     portions of campus report cards annually to the parent, guardian,
1-17     conservator, or other person having lawful control of each student
1-18     at the campus.  On written request, the school district shall
1-19     provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-21     school year.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.