By Whitmire S.B. No. 423 75R3518 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement of a driving safety course for renewal of 1-3 certain persons' driver's licenses. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter M, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 521.275 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 521.275. DRIVING SAFETY COURSE. The department may not 1-8 renew a driver's license of an applicant who is not eligible for 1-9 renewal by mail under Section 521.274(b)(3) unless within the four 1-10 years preceding the date of the renewal application the applicant 1-11 has successfully completed a driving safety course approved under 1-12 the Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 1-13 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). 1-14 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-15 to a renewal of a driver's license for which an application is 1-16 filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A renewal for 1-17 which an application is filed before the effective date of this Act 1-18 is governed by the law in effect when the application was filed, 1-19 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the crowded 1-22 condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and 1-23 an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule 1-24 requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be 2-1 suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.