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.
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