Amend the proposed Madden amendment to HB 1255 by adding the
following appropriately numbered section and renumbering the
existing sections appropriately:
      SECTION ____.  Subchapter J, Chapter 521, Transportation
Code, is amended by adding Section 521.2051 to read as follows:
      Sec. 521.2051.  COURSE TAUGHT BY PARENT OR
GUARDIAN.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Texas
Education Agency by rule shall provide for approval of a driver
education course conducted in the home in which a student is taught
by the student's parent or guardian in a bona fide manner from a
curriculum designed to meet the basic education goals of reading,
spelling, grammar, mathematics, and good citizenship. The rules
must provide that the student is not contemporaneously enrolled in
a public or private school outside the home and has not been
enrolled in a public or private school outside the home for at
least 90 percent of the fall or spring semester preceding the
taking of the course. A course approved under this section has the
same effect for the purposes of this chapter as an approved course
provided by a public school or licensed driver education school.