AN ACT
1-1 relating to qualifications for instructors of classroom driver
1-2 education in driver education schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 15A, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-5 Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-6 is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (f) of this section, a
1-9 [A] driver education instructor license may not be issued
1-10 authorizing a person to teach or give classroom driver education
1-11 training unless the person:
1-12 (1) has completed nine semester hours of driver and
1-13 traffic safety education or a program of study in driver education
1-14 approved by the board from an approved driver education school; and
1-15 (2) holds a teaching certificate and any additional
1-16 certification required to teach driver education.
1-17 (f) A temporary, nonrenewable driver education instructor
1-18 license valid for a six-month period may be issued authorizing a
1-19 person to teach or give classroom driver education training if the
1-20 person:
1-21 (1) has completed the educational requirements for a
1-22 classroom driver education instructor prescribed under Subsection
1-23 (c)(1) of this section;
1-24 (2) holds a Texas teaching certificate with an
2-1 effective date before February 1, 1986;
2-2 (3) meets all requirements for licensure, other than
2-3 successful completion of the examination required under rules
2-4 adopted by the State Board for Educator Certification to revalidate
2-5 the teaching certificate; and
2-6 (4) demonstrates, in a manner prescribed by the
2-7 commissioner, the intention to comply with the examination
2-8 requirement at the first available opportunity.
2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 81 passed the Senate on
March 2, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 81 passed the House on
May 25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor