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.