Bill Text: TX HB273 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to limits on the size of fifth grade classes in public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-11 - Referred to Public Education [HB273 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB273-Introduced.html

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83R1905 PAM-D
By: Alvarado H.B. No. 273

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to limits on the size of fifth grade classes in public
schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.112(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Except as otherwise authorized by this section, a school
district may not enroll more than 22 students in a kindergarten,
first, second, third, [or] fourth, or fifth grade class. That
limitation does not apply during:
(1) any 12-week period of the school year selected by
the district, in the case of a district whose average daily
attendance is adjusted under Section 42.005(c); or
(2) the last 12 weeks of any school year in the case of
any other district.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
school year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.