Texas Education Code
§ 25.081 — OPERATION OF SCHOOLS
ED § 25.081Title 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION · Part E. STUDENTS AND PARENTS · Ch. 25. ADMISSION, TRANSFER, AND ATTENDANCE · Art. C. OPERATION OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Statute text
View on source(a)Except as authorized under Subsection (b) of this section, Section 25.0815, Section 25.084, or Section 29.0821, for each school year each school district must operate for at least 75,600 minutes, including time allocated for instruction, intermissions, and recesses for students.
(b)The commissioner may approve the operation of schools for fewer than the number of minutes required under 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 operation 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 lost due to school closures caused by disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel curtailment, or another calamity.
(d)The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this section, including rules:
(1)for the application, on the basis of the minimum minutes of operation required by Subsection (a), of any provision of this title that refers to a minimum number of days of instruction under this section;
(2)to determine the minutes of operation that are equivalent to a day;
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Legislative history
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1084 (H.B. 2610), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2015. Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 851 (H.B. 2442), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2017. Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1144 (H.B. 441), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2017. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 464 (S.B. 11), Sec. 5, eff. June 6, 2019. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 467 (H.B. 4170), Sec. 21.001(5), eff. September 1, 2019. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 3.018, eff. September 1, 2019. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 3.019, eff. September 1, 2019.