1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirement that alcohol awareness information be
 1-3     included in the curriculum of certain driver education and driving
 1-4     safety courses.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 4, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
 1-7     Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
 1-8     is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-9           (c)  The agency by rule shall require that information
1-10     relating to alcohol awareness and the effect of alcohol on the
1-11     effective operation of a motor vehicle be included in the
1-12     curriculum of any driver education or driving safety course that is
1-13     governed by this article.  The agency shall consult with the
1-14     Department of Public Safety in developing those rules.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The Texas Education Agency shall adopt the rules
1-16     specified by Section 4(c), Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-17     Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-18     as added by Section 1 of this Act, no later than January 1, 2000.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1224 was passed by the House on May
         8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1224 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor