83R23206 JAM-D
 
  By: Orr H.B. No. 2234
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing home-taught driver education course
  providers to administer certain examinations required to obtain a
  driver's license.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 521.1655, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 521.1655.  TESTING BY DRIVER EDUCATION SCHOOL AND
  CERTAIN DRIVER EDUCATION COURSE PROVIDERS.
         SECTION 2.  Section 521.1655, Transportation Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A driver education course provider approved under
  Section 521.205 may administer to a student of that course the
  highway sign and traffic law parts of the examination required by
  Section 521.161.
         SECTION 3.  Section 521.205(c), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  The rules must provide a method by which:
               (1)  approval of a course is obtained;
               (2)  an applicant submits proof of completion of the
  course; [and]
               (3)  approval for delivering course materials by an
  alternative method, including electronic means, is obtained;
               (4)  a provider of a course approved under this section
  may administer to an applicant the highway sign and traffic law
  parts of the examination as provided by Section 521.1655(a-1)
  through electronic means; and
               (5)  an applicant submits proof of passage of an
  examination administered under Subdivision (4).
         SECTION 4.  The Department of Public Safety shall adopt the
  rules required by Section 521.205, Transportation Code, as amended
  by this Act, not later than January 1, 2014.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.