76R11891 E                           
         By Uher                                                H.B. No. 953
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 953:
         By Turner of Coleman                               C.S.H.B. No. 953
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the conducting of a driver education course by the
 1-3     student's grandparent or stepparent.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 521.205(a), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The department by rule shall provide for approval of a
 1-8     driver education course conducted by the parent, stepparent, [or]
 1-9     legal guardian, step-grandparent, or grandparent of a person who is
1-10     required to complete a driver education course to obtain a Class C
1-11     license.  The rules must provide that:
1-12                 (1)  the person conducting the course [parent or
1-13     guardian] be a licensed driver;
1-14                 (2)  the student driver spend a minimum number of hours
1-15     in:
1-16                       (A)  classroom instruction; and
1-17                       (B)  behind-the-wheel instruction;
1-18                 (3)  the person conducting the course [parent or
1-19     guardian] not be convicted of:
1-20                       (A)  criminally negligent homicide; or
1-21                       (B)  driving while intoxicated; and
1-22                 (4)  the person conducting the course [parent or
1-23     guardian] not be disabled because of mental illness.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.