Bill Text: TX HB2610 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the minimum number of minutes of instruction for students to be provided by public school districts and the scheduling of the last day of school for students by public school districts.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB2610 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2610-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the minimum number of minutes of instruction for students to be provided by public school districts and the scheduling of the last day of school for students by public school districts.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB2610 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2610-Engrossed.html
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| By: King of Hemphill, Keffer, Springer, | H.B. No. 2610 | |
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| relating to the minimum number of minutes of instruction for | ||
| students to be provided by public school districts and the | ||
| scheduling of the last day of school for students by public school | ||
| districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 25.081, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.081. OPERATION OF SCHOOLS. (a) Except as | ||
| authorized under Subsection (b) of this section, Section 25.084, or | ||
| Section 29.0821, for each school year each school district must | ||
| operate so that the district provides for at least 75,600 minutes | ||
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| for students. | ||
| (b) The commissioner may approve the instruction of | ||
| students for fewer than the number of minutes [ |
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| Subsection (a) if disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel | ||
| curtailment, or another calamity causes the closing of schools. | ||
| (c) If the commissioner does not approve reduced | ||
| instruction time under Subsection (b), a school district may add | ||
| additional minutes to the end of the district's normal school hours | ||
| as necessary to compensate for minutes of instruction lost due to | ||
| school closures caused by disaster, flood, extreme weather | ||
| conditions, fuel curtailment, or another calamity. | ||
| (d) The commissioner may adopt rules for the application, on | ||
| the basis of the minimum minutes of instruction required by | ||
| Subsection (a), of any provision of this title that refers to a | ||
| minimum number of days of instruction under this section. | ||
| (e) For purposes of this code, a reference to a day of | ||
| instruction means 420 minutes of instruction. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.0812 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.0812. LAST DAY OF SCHOOL. (a) Except as provided | ||
| by Subsection (b), a school district may not schedule the last day | ||
| of school for students for a school year before May 15. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a school district that | ||
| does not offer each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 | ||
| and whose prospective or former students generally attend school in | ||
| another state for the grade levels the district does not offer may | ||
| schedule the last day of school on any date permitted under | ||
| Subsection (a) or the law of the other state. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
