1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 81
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 4, 1998; January 26, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 6, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to qualifications for instructors of classroom driver
1-9 education in driver education schools.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 15A, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-12 Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-13 is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to
1-14 read as follows:
1-15 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (f) of this section, a
1-16 [A] driver education instructor license may not be issued
1-17 authorizing a person to teach or give classroom driver education
1-18 training unless the person:
1-19 (1) has completed nine semester hours of driver and
1-20 traffic safety education or a program of study in driver education
1-21 approved by the board from an approved driver education school; and
1-22 (2) holds a teaching certificate and any additional
1-23 certification required to teach driver education.
1-24 (f) A temporary, nonrenewable driver education instructor
1-25 license valid for a six-month period may be issued authorizing a
1-26 person to teach or give classroom driver education training if the
1-27 person:
1-28 (1) has completed the educational requirements for a
1-29 classroom driver education instructor prescribed under Subsection
1-30 (c)(1) of this section;
1-31 (2) holds a Texas teaching certificate with an
1-32 effective date before February 1, 1986;
1-33 (3) meets all requirements for licensure, other than
1-34 successful completion of the examination required under rules
1-35 adopted by the State Board for Educator Certification to revalidate
1-36 the teaching certificate; and
1-37 (4) demonstrates, in a manner prescribed by the
1-38 commissioner, the intention to comply with the examination
1-39 requirement at the first available opportunity.
1-40 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-41 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-45 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-46 passage, and it is so enacted.
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