Bill Text: TX HB2234 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing home-taught driver education course providers to administer certain examinations required to obtain a driver's license.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-13 - Referred to Transportation [HB2234 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2234-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing home-taught driver education course providers to administer certain examinations required to obtain a driver's license.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-13 - Referred to Transportation [HB2234 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2234-Introduced.html
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By: Orr | H.B. No. 2234 |
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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; [ |
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(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. |