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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to the provision of home-taught driver education courses  | 
      
      
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        by state agencies. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 521.205, Transportation Code, is amended  | 
      
      
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        by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (e)  A state agency may not develop or provide a driver  | 
      
      
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        education course, including course materials, under this section  | 
      
      
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        directly or through contract. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  The change in law made by Section 521.205,  | 
      
      
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        Transportation Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a  | 
      
      
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        driver education course approved under that section for which  | 
      
      
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        materials are purchased on or after the effective date of this Act.   | 
      
      
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        A course for which materials are purchased before the effective  | 
      
      
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        date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date course  | 
      
      
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        materials were purchased, and that law is continued in effect for  | 
      
      
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        that purpose. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |