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. 1-32 * * * * *