Bill Text: TX HB2564 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to academic requirements for issuance of an instruction permit by the Department of Public Safety or a driver education school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB2564 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2564-Introduced.html
  82R6647 VOO-D
 
  By: Christian H.B. No. 2564
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to academic requirements for issuance of an instruction
  permit by the Department of Public Safety or a driver education
  school.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 521.222(a), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The department or a driver education school licensed
  under Chapter 1001, 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; and
               (5)  meets the requirements established by the
  department and the Texas Education Agency under Section 521.2221,
  if applicable.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter K, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 521.2221 to read as follows:
         Sec. 521.2221.  ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTRUCTION
  PERMIT. The department and the Texas Education Agency jointly
  shall adopt rules to ensure that an applicant for an instruction
  permit who is enrolled at a public school, home school, or private
  school is in good academic standing. The rules must require:
               (1)  an applicant who is enrolled at a public school to
  demonstrate that the applicant:
                     (A)  did not receive a grade lower than the
  equivalent of a 70 on a scale of 100 in any state-mandated class for
  the most recent grade evaluation period, as that term is defined by
  Section 33.081(c), Education Code; and
                     (B)  has performed satisfactorily on all
  assessment instruments required of the person under Subchapter B,
  Chapter 39, Education Code; and
               (2)  an applicant who is enrolled at a home school or
  private school to demonstrate that the applicant meets academic
  standards equivalent to those required for public school students
  under Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 3.  (a)  The Department of Public Safety and the
  Texas Education Agency shall adopt the rules required by Section
  521.2221, Transportation Code, as added by this Act, not later than
  January 1, 2012.
         (b)  The change in law made to Section 521.222(a),
  Transportation Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to an
  instruction permit issued on or after the effective date of the
  rules adopted under Subsection (a) of this section.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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