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House Bill 2610 |
House Author: King, Ken et al. |
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Effective: 6-19-15 |
Senate Sponsor: Taylor, Larry |
House Bill 2610 amends the Education Code to change from 180 days to 75,600 minutes the minimum amount of instruction time each school district is required to provide each school year, with certain exceptions. Such instruction time includes intermissions and recesses. The bill authorizes a school district to 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 a calamity if the commissioner of education does not approve reduced instruction time for school closures due to the calamity. The bill prohibits a school district from scheduling the last day of school for students for a school year before May 15, with a certain exception.