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79R2208 SLO-D

By:  McClendon                                                    H.B. No. 285



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the number of days and hours of annual instruction for 
public school students.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 25.081, Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:   
	Sec. 25.081.  OPERATION OF SCHOOLS.  (a)  Except as 
authorized under Subsection (b) of this section, Section 25.084, or 
Section 29.0821, for each school year each school district must 
operate so that the district provides for not more than [at least] 
180 days and not fewer than 1,260 hours of instruction for students.
	(b)  The commissioner may approve the instruction of 
students for fewer than the number of hours [days] required under 
Subsection (a) if disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel 
curtailment, or another calamity causes the closing of schools.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2005-2006 
school year.       
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.