88R9215 ANG-D
By: Allen H.B. No. 2938
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain requirements regarding public school class
size.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A local innovation plan may not provide for the
exemption of a district designated as a district of innovation from
the following provisions of this title:
(1) a state or federal requirement applicable to an
open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D,
Chapter 12;
(2) Subchapters A, C, D, and E, Chapter 11, except that
a district may be exempt from Sections 11.1511(b)(5) and (14) and
Section 11.162;
(3) requirements related to class size limits under
Section 25.112 and notice regarding class size under Section
25.113;
(4) state curriculum and graduation requirements
adopted under Chapter 28; and
(5) [(4)] academic and financial accountability and
sanctions under Chapters 39 and 39A.
SECTION 2. Section 25.113, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Regardless of whether a school district or campus in the
district is granted an exception under Section 25.112(d), the
school district shall publish on the district's publicly accessible
Internet website a list of classes in the district in which the
number of students exceeds the class size limits under Section
25.112.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
school year.
SECTION 4. 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, 2023.