By Brimer H.B. No. 610 74R2482 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that an applicant for renewal of a 1-3 driver's license complete a driving safety course. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, 1-6 Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-7 Statutes), is amended by adding Section 4D to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 4D. COURSE REQUIRED FOR RENEWAL OF DRIVER'S LICENSE. 1-9 The department may not issue a renewal of a driver's license to an 1-10 applicant who has not successfully completed a driving safety 1-11 course approved by the Central Education Agency under the Texas 1-12 Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c), 1-13 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) within the four-year period 1-14 preceding the date of the application. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-16 applies only to a person who applies for a renewal of the person's 1-17 driver's license on or after that date. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.