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.