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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