By Grusendorf H.B. No. 2410
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation of driver training schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3(7), Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-5 Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (7) "Extension" means an entity that geographically
1-8 extends the educational resources of a school by offering a driving
1-9 safety course or a driver education course in a location other than
1-10 the main business location of the school. An extension may use
1-11 multiple locations to teach a driving safety course or a driver
1-12 education course if each location is approved by the parent school
1-13 and the agency. <A driver education course may not be conducted at
1-14 an extension.> An extension of an extension is not permitted.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 11, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-16 Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-17 is amended to read as follows:
1-18 Sec. 11. LOCATIONS AUTHORIZED FOR INSTRUCTION. Driving
1-19 safety courses complying with Section 143A, Uniform Act Regulating
1-20 Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-21 and driver education courses may be taught at an extension or in a
1-22 driver training school if the entity is approved by the agency.
1-23 Instructor preparation courses may be conducted at a course owner's
2-1 facilities. All other driver training courses must be conducted in
2-2 agency-approved schools.
2-3 SECTION 3. Section 13(g), Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
2-4 Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
2-5 is amended to read as follows:
2-6 (g) Before a driver training school license may be issued
2-7 under this Act, a bond shall be provided by the school for the
2-8 period for which the license is to be issued, and the obligation of
2-9 the bond shall be that neither a provision of this Act nor any rule
2-10 adopted under this Act shall be violated by the school or any of
2-11 its officers, agents, or employees. A school that teaches driver
2-12 education shall submit a bond in the amount of $10,000 for each
2-13 location, but the total bond amounts for a school with multiple
2-14 locations shall not exceed $25,000. All other schools shall submit
2-15 a bond in the amount of $5,000. A bond must be a corporate surety
2-16 bond issued by a company authorized to do business in the state, be
2-17 payable to the state, and be used only for payment of a refund due
2-18 to a student or potential student. The bond shall be filed with
2-19 the commissioner and shall be in such form as shall be approved by
2-20 the commissioner. Posting of these bond amounts shall satisfy the
2-21 requirements for financial stability for schools under this Act.
2-22 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The
2-23 change in law made by this Act applies only to an application for
2-24 an original or the renewal of a driver training school license that
2-25 is made on or after that date. An application for an original or
3-1 the renewal of a driver training school license made before the
3-2 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
3-3 application was filed, and the former law is continued in effect
3-4 for this purpose.
3-5 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.