1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 953
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the conducting of a driver education course by the
1-9 student's grandparent or stepparent.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 521.205(a), Transportation Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The department by rule shall provide for approval of a
1-14 driver education course conducted by the parent, stepparent, [or]
1-15 legal guardian, step-grandparent, or grandparent of a person who is
1-16 required to complete a driver education course to obtain a Class C
1-17 license. The rules must provide that:
1-18 (1) the person conducting the course [parent or
1-19 guardian] be a licensed driver;
1-20 (2) the student driver spend a minimum number of hours
1-21 in:
1-22 (A) classroom instruction; and
1-23 (B) behind-the-wheel instruction;
1-24 (3) the person conducting the course [parent or
1-25 guardian] not be convicted of:
1-26 (A) criminally negligent homicide; or
1-27 (B) driving while intoxicated; and
1-28 (4) the person conducting the course [parent or
1-29 guardian] not be disabled because of mental illness.
1-30 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-36 * * * * *