Bill Text: TX HB516 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 516 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that drivers younger than a certain age complete and pass a driver education course.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-19 - Senate Amendments Analysis distributed [HB516 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB516-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Israel (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa)	H.B. No. 516
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017;
	May 4, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Transportation; May 10, 2017, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the requirement that drivers younger than a certain age
	complete and pass a driver education course.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 1001.055(a), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a) The department shall provide to each licensed or exempt
	driver education school and to each parent-taught course provider
	approved under this chapter driver education certificates or
	certificate numbers to enable the school or approved parent-taught
	course provider to print and issue department-approved driver
	education certificates to certify completion of an approved driver
	education course and satisfy the requirements of Sections 521.1601
	and 521.204(a)(2), Transportation Code [~~, 521.1601, Transportation~~
	~~Code, as added by Chapter 1253 (H.B. 339), Acts of the 81st~~
	~~Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, and 521.1601, Transportation~~
	~~Code, as added by Chapter 1413 (S.B. 1317), Acts of the 81st~~
	~~Legislature, Regular Session, 2009~~].
	SECTION 2. Section 521.142(d), Transportation Code, as
	amended by Chapters 1253 (H.B. 339) and 1413 (S.B. 1317), Acts of
	the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted to read
	as follows:
	(d) If the applicant is under 25 years of age, the
	application must state whether the applicant has completed a driver
	education course required by Section 521.1601.
	SECTION 3. Section 521.1601, Transportation Code, as added
	by Chapter 1253 (H.B. 339), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular
	Session, 2009, is repealed.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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