By Averitt H.B. No. 3157
77R7550 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for a driving safety instructor license.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 15, 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. 15. (a) A person may not teach or give driving safety
1-8 training, either as an individual or in a driving safety school, or
1-9 any phase of driving safety education, unless a driving safety
1-10 instructor license has been secured from the agency, except that an
1-11 instructor of a driving safety course that does not provide a
1-12 uniform certificate of completion to its graduates is exempt from
1-13 this section.
1-14 (b) A person may not teach or give driver education, either
1-15 as an individual or in a driver education school, or any phase of
1-16 driver education unless the person:
1-17 (1) holds a driver education instructor license [has
1-18 been secured] from the agency;
1-19 (2) has a four-year degree from an institution of
1-20 higher education and has completed the nine semester hours
1-21 described under Section 15A(b) of this Act; or
1-22 (3) has held for at least three years a teaching
1-23 certificate and any additional certification required to teach
1-24 driver education and has completed 32 hours of student teaching in
2-1 driver education.
2-2 (c) [(b)] A license issued to a driver education or driving
2-3 safety instructor expires not more than 12 months after the date of
2-4 issue, unless sooner suspended or revoked. License renewal
2-5 applications must include evidence of completion of continuing
2-6 education and shall be postmarked at least 30 days before the date
2-7 of expiration or a late renewal fee of $25 will be imposed. The
2-8 continuing education must be in courses approved by the
2-9 commissioner and be for a certain number of hours determined by the
2-10 commissioner.
2-11 (d) [(c)] A driver education instructor license shall be
2-12 carried by the instructor at all times while instructing driver
2-13 education courses. A driving safety instructor license shall be
2-14 carried by the instructor at all times while instructing driving
2-15 safety courses. Each license shall be signed by the commissioner
2-16 and issued under the seal of the board.
2-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.