Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Education Code § 25.0821: MINUTE OF SILENCE TO COMMEMORATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.

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EDUCATION CODE
TITLE 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION
SUBTITLE E. STUDENTS AND PARENTS
CHAPTER 25. ADMISSION, TRANSFER, AND ATTENDANCE
SUBCHAPTER C. OPERATION OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

(a) To commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, in each year that date falls on a regular school day, each public elementary or secondary school shall provide for the observance of one minute of silence at the beginning of the first class period of that day.

(b) Immediately before the period of observance required by this section, the class instructor shall make a statement of reference to the memory of individuals who died on September 11, 2001.

(c) The period of observance required by this section may be held in conjunction with the minute of silence required by Section 25.082.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 925 (H.B. 1501), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.

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