Texas Family Code

§ 65.003 — TRUANT CONDUCT

FA § 65.003Title 3A. TRUANCY COURT PROCEEDINGS · Ch. 65. TRUANCY COURT PROCEEDINGS · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Statute text

(a)A child engages in truant conduct if the child is required to attend school under Section 25.085, Education Code, and fails to attend school on 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the same school year.

(b)Truant conduct may be prosecuted only as a civil case in a truancy court.

(c)It is an affirmative defense to an allegation of truant conduct that one or more of the absences required to be proven:

(1)have been excused by a school official or by the court;

(2)were involuntary; or

(3)were due to the child's voluntary absence from the child's home because of abuse, as defined by Section 261.001.

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Legislative history

Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 272 (H.B. 3165), Sec. 1, eff. June 4, 2021.