83R23206 JAM-D
By: Orr H.B. No. 2234
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2234:
By: Pickett C.S.H.B. No. 2234
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing home-taught driver education course
providers to administer certain examinations required to obtain a
driver's license.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 521.1655, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 521.1655. TESTING BY DRIVER EDUCATION SCHOOL AND
CERTAIN DRIVER EDUCATION COURSE PROVIDERS.
SECTION 2. Section 521.1655, Transportation Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) A driver education course provider approved under
Section 521.205 may administer to a student of that course the
highway sign and traffic law parts of the examination required by
Section 521.161.
SECTION 3. Section 521.205(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The rules must provide a method by which:
(1) approval of a course is obtained;
(2) an applicant submits proof of completion of the
course; [and]
(3) approval for delivering course materials by an
alternative method, including electronic means, is obtained;
(4) a provider of a course approved under this section
may administer to an applicant the highway sign and traffic law
parts of the examination as provided by Section 521.1655(a-1)
through electronic means; and
(5) an applicant submits proof of passage of an
examination administered under Subdivision (4).
SECTION 4. The Department of Public Safety shall adopt the
rules required by Section 521.205, Transportation Code, as amended
by this Act, not later than January 1, 2014.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.