By Bernsen S.B. No. 777 76R7069 SMH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement that litter prevention information be 1-3 included in the curriculum of certain driver education and driving 1-4 safety courses. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 6, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety 1-7 Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), 1-8 is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-9 (c) The commissioner by rule shall require that information 1-10 relating to litter prevention be included in the curriculum of each 1-11 driver education and driving safety course. The commissioner shall 1-12 consult with the Department of Public Safety in developing rules 1-13 under this subsection. 1-14 SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2000, the commissioner 1-15 of education shall adopt rules under Section 6(c), Texas Driver and 1-16 Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas 1-17 Civil Statutes), as added by this Act. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.