Bill Text: TX HB2837 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of home-taught driver education courses by state agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-03 - Left pending in committee [HB2837 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2837-Introduced.html

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83R1408 JAM-D
By: Smithee H.B. No. 2837

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