Texas Education Code
§ 51.992 — RESTRICTIONS ON TELEWORK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION EMPLOYEES
ED § 51.992Title 3. HIGHER EDUCATION · Part A. HIGHER EDUCATION IN GENERAL · Ch. 51. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO HIGHER EDUCATION · Art. Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section:
(1)"Faculty member" has the meaning assigned by Section 51.101.
(2)"Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
(3)"Telework" means a work arrangement that allows an employee of an institution of higher education to conduct on a regular basis all or some institutional business at a place other than the employee's regular or assigned temporary place of employment during all or a portion of the employee's established work hours.
(b)Notwithstanding Section 658.010, Government Code, an institution of higher education may not allow telework for an employee except as provided by this section.
(c)An institution of higher education may allow telework for an employee on a temporary or permanent basis if the employee:
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1030 (S.B. 2615), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.