1-1     By:  Jones of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - West)          H.B. No. 1224
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the requirement that alcohol awareness information be
 1-9     included in the curriculum of certain driver education and driving
1-10     safety courses.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 4, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-13     Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-14     is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-15           (c)  The agency by rule shall require that information
1-16     relating to alcohol awareness and the effect of alcohol on the
1-17     effective operation of a motor vehicle be included in the
1-18     curriculum of any driver education or driving safety course that is
1-19     governed by this article.  The agency shall consult with the
1-20     Department of Public Safety in developing those rules.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The Texas Education Agency shall adopt the rules
1-22     specified by Section 4(c), Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-23     Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-24     as added by Section 1 of this Act, no later than January 1, 2000.
1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.
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