Tex. Gov't Code § 661.206 · Subchapter G. GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR SICK LEAVE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES: USE OF SICK LEAVE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies to an employee who is a parent of a child who is a student attending a grade from prekindergarten through 12th grade.
(b) An employee may use up to eight hours of sick leave each fiscal year to attend educational activities of the employee's children.
(c) An employee shall give reasonable advance notice of the employee's intention to use the sick leave to attend an educational activity.
(d) In this section:
(1) "Educational activity" means a school-sponsored activity, including a parent-teacher conference, tutoring, a volunteer program, a field trip, a classroom program, a school committee meeting, an academic competition, and an athletic, music, or theater program.
(2) "Employee" has the meaning assigned by Section 661.001.
(3) "Parent" means a person standing in parental relation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 430, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Renumbered from Sec. 661.151 and amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 279, Sec. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1310, Sec. 46, eff. June 20, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 250 (H.B. 480), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 250 (H.B. 480), Sec. 2, eff. June 14, 2013.
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