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