Bill Text: TX HB2708 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for teaching a driver education course.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective immediately [HB2708 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2708-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for teaching a driver education course.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective immediately [HB2708 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2708-Comm_Sub.html
By: Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.B. No. 2708 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2015; | ||
May 7, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the qualifications for teaching a driver education | ||
course. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 521.205(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The department by rule shall provide for approval of a | ||
driver education course conducted by the parent, stepparent, foster | ||
parent, legal guardian, step-grandparent, or grandparent of a | ||
person who is required to complete a driver education course to | ||
obtain a Class C license. The rules must provide that: | ||
(1) the person conducting the course possess a valid | ||
license for the preceding three years that has not been suspended, | ||
revoked, or forfeited in the past three years for an offense that | ||
involves the operation of a motor vehicle; | ||
(2) the student driver spend a minimum number of hours | ||
in: | ||
(A) classroom instruction; and | ||
(B) behind-the-wheel instruction; | ||
(3) the person conducting the course not be convicted | ||
of: | ||
(A) criminally negligent homicide; or | ||
(B) driving while intoxicated; and | ||
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more points assigned to the person's driver's license under | ||
Subchapter B, Chapter 708, at the time the person begins conducting | ||
the course. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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