Bill Text: TX HB3337 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain persons to teach a driver education course.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3337 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3337-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bonnen of Brazoria, et al. | H.B. No. 3337 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2017; | ||
May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 22, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the eligibility of certain persons to teach a driver | ||
education course. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1001.112(a), Education Code, the | ||
substance of which was transferred from Section 521.205(a), | ||
Transportation Code, by Chapter 1044 (H.B. 1786), Acts of the 84th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is amended to conform to | ||
Chapter 567 (H.B. 2708), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2015, and further amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission by rule shall provide for approval of a | ||
driver education course conducted by a person designated under | ||
Subsection (a-1) or by the parent, stepparent, foster parent, legal | ||
guardian, grandparent, or step-grandparent of a person who is | ||
required to complete a driver education course to obtain a Class C | ||
license. The rules must provide that the student driver spend a | ||
minimum number of hours in classroom and behind-the-wheel | ||
instruction and that the person conducting the course: | ||
(1) 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) has not been convicted of: | ||
(A) criminally negligent homicide; or | ||
(B) driving while intoxicated; and | ||
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person's driver's license under Subchapter B, Chapter 708, | ||
Transportation Code, at the time the person begins conducting the | ||
course. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1001.112, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) The parent of a person who is required to complete a | ||
driver education course to obtain a Class C license may designate a | ||
person 25 years of age or older to conduct a driver education course | ||
under Subsection (a) if the parent has a disability. In this | ||
subsection, "disability" means, with respect to an individual, a | ||
physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more | ||
major life activities. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Section 521.1655(a-1), Transportation Code, | ||
is repealed. | ||
(b) Section 521.205(a), Transportation Code, as amended by | ||
Chapter 567 (H.B. 2708), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2015, is repealed to conform to the repeal of Section | ||
521.205, Transportation Code, by Chapter 1044 (H.B. 1786), Acts of | ||
the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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