By:  Bernsen                                           S.B. No. 777
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a requirement that litter prevention information be
 1-2     included in the curriculum of certain driver education and driving
 1-3     safety courses.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
 1-6     Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
 1-7     is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  The commissioner by rule shall require that information
 1-9     relating to litter prevention be included in the curriculum of each
1-10     driver education and driving safety course.  The commissioner shall
1-11     consult with the Department of Public Safety in developing rules
1-12     under this subsection.
1-13           SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2000, the commissioner
1-14     of education shall adopt rules under Subsection (c), Section 6,
1-15     Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c),
1-16     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by this Act.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.