Bill Text: TX SB1051 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the accommodation of a deaf or hard of hearing student in driver education; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1051 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1051-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1051 |
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relating to the accommodation of a deaf or hard of hearing student | ||
in driver education; authorizing a fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 1001, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1001.059 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.059. DEPARTMENT DRIVER EDUCATION COURSE FOR DEAF | ||
OR HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS. (a) The department shall: | ||
(1) create a driver education course for minors and | ||
adults that presents the course curriculum in American Sign | ||
Language; and | ||
(2) make the course described by Subdivision (1) | ||
available on the department's Internet website. | ||
(b) The department may collaborate with another state | ||
agency or contract with a licensed driver education school or | ||
instructor to create the course. | ||
(c) The commission by rule shall establish a fee for the | ||
course. The fee established under this section: | ||
(1) is in addition to a fee charged for a certificate | ||
for the course; and | ||
(2) must be in an amount that is: | ||
(A) not more than an amount necessary to cover | ||
the cost of creating and administering the course; and | ||
(B) not more than the average cost of an online | ||
driver education course provided in this state, as determined by | ||
the commission. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 1001, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1001.1016 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.1016. ACCOMMODATION FOR DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING | ||
STUDENTS. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Deaf" means a hearing loss of such severity that | ||
an individual must depend on visual methods to communicate. | ||
(2) "Hard of hearing" means a loss of hearing function | ||
to an individual such that the individual: | ||
(A) relies on residual hearing; and | ||
(B) may depend on visual methods to communicate. | ||
(b) The commission by rule shall require a driver education | ||
school providing a driver education course to: | ||
(1) in the manner described by the Americans with | ||
Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. Section 12101 et seq.), make | ||
reasonable modifications and provide aids and services when | ||
providing the classroom portion of the course that are necessary to | ||
ensure that a student who is deaf or hard of hearing may fully | ||
participate in the course; and | ||
(2) provide to the department the school's plan for | ||
complying with the rules adopted under this section as a condition | ||
of obtaining a license under Section 1001.211 or renewing a license | ||
under Section 1001.303. | ||
(c) The rules adopted under Subsection (b) must allow a | ||
driver education school to comply with the requirements of this | ||
section by playing a video that presents the classroom portion of | ||
the driver education course in a manner that complies with the | ||
requirements of this section. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1051 passed the Senate on | ||
April 5, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 2; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2017, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1051 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, | ||
Nays 0, one present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |