76R15431 SMH-F                          
         By Bernsen                                             S.B. No. 777
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 777:
         By Sadler                                          C.S.S.B. No. 777
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the regulation of driver training courses.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 6, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
 1-5     Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 6.  DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER.  (a)  The commissioner shall
 1-8     carry out the policies of this Act, adopt rules necessary to
 1-9     implement this Act, enforce rules adopted by the commissioner
1-10     [board], and certify those schools and course providers meeting the
1-11     requirements for a driver education school license, driving safety
1-12     school license, or both, or for a course provider license.  A
1-13     reference in another provision of this Act to a rule adopted by the
1-14     board means a rule adopted by the commissioner.
1-15           (b)  The commissioner by rule shall establish the curriculum
1-16     and designate the textbooks that must be used in a driver education
1-17     course.
1-18           (c)  The commissioner by rule shall require that information
1-19     relating to litter prevention be included in the curriculum of each
1-20     driver education and driving safety course.  The commissioner shall
1-21     consult the Department of Public Safety in developing rules under
1-22     this subsection.  [In addition, the commissioner may adopt and
1-23     enforce temporary rules under this Act, but the temporary rules are
 2-1     valid only until the next meeting of the board.]
 2-2           SECTION 2.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
 2-3     section, the commissioner of education shall adopt rules under the
 2-4     Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c),
 2-5     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by this Act, not later
 2-6     than January 1, 2001.  A rule adopted by the State Board of
 2-7     Education under the Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act
 2-8     (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)  before the
 2-9     effective date of this Act remains in effect until superseded by a
2-10     rule adopted by the commissioner of education.
2-11           (b)  Not later than January 1, 2000, the commissioner of
2-12     education shall adopt rules under Section 6(c), Texas Driver and
2-13     Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas
2-14     Civil Statutes), as added by this Act.
2-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.