Amend CSHB 468 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  In Section 6 of the bill, in amended Subsection (a), 
Section 1001.055, Education Code (page 2, line 44), strike "or" and 
substitute "driver education school and the Texas Education Agency 
shall print and supply to each [or]".
	(2)  In Section 6 of the bill, in amended Subsection (b), 
Section 1001.055, Education Code (page 2, line 49), strike 
"[agency] by rule shall" and substitute "and the Texas Education 
Agency [agency] by rule shall each".
	(3)  In Section 6 of the bill, in amended Subsection (c), 
Section 1001.055, Education Code (page 2, line 53), between 
"department" and "[agency]", insert "or the Texas Education 
Agency".
	(4)  In Section 34 of the bill, strike amended Subdivision 
(2), Subsection (b), Section 1001.354, Education Code (page 11, 
lines 35-39), and substitute the following:
		(2)  the alternative method includes testing and 
security measures that are at least as secure as the measures 
available in the usual classroom setting.
	(5)  Add the following appropriately numbered sections to 
the bill and renumber the remaining sections of the bill 
appropriately:
	SECTION ___.  Section 521.204(a), Transportation Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The department may issue a Class C driver's license to 
an applicant under 18 years of age only if the applicant:
		(1)  is 16 years of age or older;                                             
		(2)  has submitted to the department a driver education 
certificate issued under Chapter 1001, Education Code [Section 9A, 
Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c), 
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)], that states that the person has 
completed and passed a driver education course approved by the 
department under Section 521.205 or by the Texas Education Agency 
or the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation;
		(3)  has obtained a high school diploma or its 
equivalent or is a student:  
			(A)  currently enrolled in a public school, home 
school, or private school who attended school and, for each class in 
which the student was enrolled [for at least 80 days] in the fall or 
spring semester preceding the date of the driver's license 
application, met the minimum attendance required for class credit 
under Section 25.092, Education Code; or
			(B)  who has been enrolled for at least 45 days, 
and is enrolled as of the date of the application, in a program to 
prepare persons to pass the high school equivalency exam and during 
that period of enrollment has met all attendance requirements for 
the program; and
		(4)  has passed the examination required by Section 
521.161.                
	SECTION ___.  Sections 521.222(a) and (c), Transportation 
Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The department or a driver education school licensed 
under Chapter 1001, Education Code, or a driver education school 
approved under Section 29.902 or 51.308, Education Code, [the Texas 
Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413(29c), 
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)] may issue an instruction permit, 
including a Class A or Class B driver's license instruction permit, 
to a person who:
		(1)  is 15 years of age or older but under 18 years of 
age;                 
		(2)  has satisfactorily completed and passed the 
classroom phase of an approved driver education course, which may 
be a course approved under Section 521.205;
		(3)  meets the requirements imposed under Section 
521.204(3);  and          
		(4)  has passed each examination required under Section 
521.161 other than the driving test.
	(c)  A driver education school licensed under Chapter 1001, 
Education Code, may issue an instruction permit to a person 18 years 
of age or older who has successfully passed:
		(1)  a six-hour adult classroom driver education course 
approved by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
[Education Agency]; and
		(2)  each part of the driver's examination required by 
Section 521.161 other than the driving test.
	(6)  In Section 46 of the bill (page 14, line 24), between 
"Code," and "and Subchapter B", insert "Section 542.202(b)(3), 
Transportation Code,".