1-1     By:  Bernsen                                           S.B. No. 777
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1999; March 3, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 29, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a requirement that litter prevention information be
 1-9     included in the curriculum of certain driver education and driving
1-10     safety courses.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 6, Texas Driver and Traffic Safety
1-13     Education Act (Article 4413(29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-14     is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-15           (c)  The commissioner by rule shall require that information
1-16     relating to litter prevention be included in the curriculum of each
1-17     driver education and driving safety course.  The commissioner shall
1-18     consult with the Department of Public Safety in developing rules
1-19     under this subsection.
1-20           SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2000, the commissioner
1-21     of education shall adopt rules under Subsection (c), Section 6,
1-22     Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c),
1-23     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by this Act.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.
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