83R9984 JAM-F
By: Lucio S.B. No. 1269
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 or a person who conducts a course under that section
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
or a person conducting a course 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.