HBA-MPM S.B. 576 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 576 By: Armbrister Public Education 5/12/1999 Engrossed BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, the Texas Education Agency and school districts report campus and district-wide class size averages. Such averages may not provide the public with an accurate accounting of actual class size among grade levels, subject areas, and programs. S.B. 576 requires school districts to report the actual number of students enrolled per class by grade level, subject, or special program to the Texas Education Agency, and for that information to be included on the campus report card delivered to parents. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Subchapter D, Chapter 25, Education Code, by adding Sections 25.113 and 25.114, as follows: Sec. 25.113. REPORT TO AGENCY CONCERNING CLASS SIZE. Requires each school district (district) to report to the Texas Education Agency (agency) the number of students enrolled in each class at the kindergarten level through grade 12, by grade level, subject, and special programs, as applicable. Sec. 25.114. NOTICE TO PARENTS CONCERNING CLASS SIZE. Requires each district to give to a parent written notice of the number of students enrolled in each class or subject in which the parent's child is enrolled as part of notice of the student's performance required under Section 28.022(a)(2) (Notice to Parent of Unsatisfactory Performance), Education Code, which requires the board of trustees of each district to adopt a policy that requires the district, at least once every 12 weeks, to give written notice to a parent of a student's performance in each class or subject. SECTION 2. Amends Sections 39.052(b) and (c), Education Code, to require report cards to make conforming changes. SECTION 3. Makes application of this Act prospective to the 1999-2000 school year. SECTION 4. Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage.