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1		-	By: King of Hemphill, et al. H.B. No. 2610
2		-	(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston)
3		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2015;
4		-	May 13, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
5		-	Education; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
6		-	Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
	1	+	H.B. No. 2610
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10		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	4		AN ACT
12	5		relating to the minimum number of minutes of instruction for
13	6		students to be provided by public school districts and the
14	7		scheduling of the last day of school for students by public school
15	8		districts.
16	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
17	10		SECTION 1. Section 25.081, Education Code, is amended to
18	11		read as follows:
19	12		Sec. 25.081. OPERATION OF SCHOOLS. (a) Except as
20	13		authorized under Subsection (b) of this section, Section 25.084, or
21	14		Section 29.0821, for each school year each school district must
22	15		operate so that the district provides for at least 75,600 minutes
23	16		[180 days] of instruction, including intermissions and recesses,
24	17		for students.
25	18		(b) The commissioner may approve the instruction of
26	19		students for fewer than the number of minutes [days] required under
27	20		Subsection (a) if disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel
28	21		curtailment, or another calamity causes the closing of schools.
29	22		(c) If the commissioner does not approve reduced
30	23		instruction time under Subsection (b), a school district may add
31	24		additional minutes to the end of the district's normal school hours
32	25		as necessary to compensate for minutes of instruction lost due to
33	26		school closures caused by disaster, flood, extreme weather
34	27		conditions, fuel curtailment, or another calamity.
35	28		(d) The commissioner may adopt rules for the application, on
36	29		the basis of the minimum minutes of instruction required by
37	30		Subsection (a), of any provision of this title that refers to a
38	31		minimum number of days of instruction under this section.
39	32		(e) For purposes of this code, a reference to a day of
40	33		instruction means 420 minutes of instruction.
41	34		SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
42	35		amended by adding Section 25.0812 to read as follows:
43	36		Sec. 25.0812. LAST DAY OF SCHOOL. (a) Except as provided
44	37		by Subsection (b), a school district may not schedule the last day
45	38		of school for students for a school year before May 15.
46	39		(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a school district that
47	40		does not offer each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12
48	41		and whose prospective or former students generally attend school in
49	42		another state for the grade levels the district does not offer may
50	43		schedule the last day of school on any date permitted under
51	44		Subsection (a) or the law of the other state.
52	45		SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
53	46		school year.
54	47		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
55	48		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
56	49		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
57	50		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
58	51		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	52	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	53	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	54	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2610 was passed by the House on May
	55	+	11, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	56	+	voting.
	57	+	______________________________
	58	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	59	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2610 was passed by the Senate on May
	60	+	27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	61	+	______________________________
	62	+	Secretary of the Senate
	63	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	64	+	Date
	65	+	_____________________
	66	+	Governor