HBA-JRA H.B. 3768 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3768
By: Gallego
Public Education
4/20/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law does not require that campus report cards detail class size by
grade level, subject, or special program.  The Education Code requires that
report cards include student/teacher ratios, which may result in the
reporting of inaccurate class size figures.  H.B. 3768 requires campus
report cards to report class size by grade level, subject, and special
program and requires campus report cards to be disseminated to each member
of the campus-level planning and decision-making committee, as well as to
the parents of the students enrolled at the campus. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that rulemaking
authority previously delegated to the commissioner of education is modified
in SECTION 1 (Section 39.052, Education Code) of this bill. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Sections 39.052(b) and (c), Education Code, to require a
report card to include student/classroom teacher ratios and class size by
grade level, subject, and special program. Requires the commissioner of
education to adopt rules requiring dissemination of appropriate student
performance portions of campus report cards annually to each member of the
campus-level planning and decision-making committee. 

SECTION 2.  Makes application of this Act prospective to the 1999-2000
school year. 

SECTION 3.Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.