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

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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]

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  85R3181 BEE-F
 
  By: Israel H.B. No. 516
 
 
 
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  Session, 2009, is repealed.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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