88R8483 JSC-D
 
  By: Guillen H.B. No. 5183
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the approval of equivalent educational programs for
  persons whose driver's license is suspended following conviction of
  certain drug offenses.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 521.376, Transportation Code, is amended
  by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
  follows:
         (b)  The Department of State Health Services:
               (1)  shall monitor, coordinate, and provide training
  to  residential treatment facilities described by Section
  521.374(a)(2)(C) [521.374(a)(2)] providing equivalent education;
  and
               (2)  shall administer the approval of the equivalent
  education provided in a [residential treatment] facility described
  by Section 521.374(a)(2)(A) or (B).
         (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice or a community
  supervision and corrections department established under Chapter
  76, Government Code, operating an equivalent educational program in
  a facility described by Section 521.374(a)(2)(A) or (B), as
  applicable, shall submit information regarding the program to the
  Department of State Health Services for approval under this
  subchapter.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.