Bill Text: TX SB2304 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of driver education courses and driving safety courses and the provision of information regarding the Texas Driving with Disability Program to certain public school students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB2304 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2304-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 2304 | ||
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| relating to the regulation of driver education courses and driving | ||
| safety courses and the provision of information regarding the Texas | ||
| Driving with Disability Program to certain public school students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.0113 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.0113. DRIVING WITH DISABILITY PROGRAM INFORMATION. | ||
| (a) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school shall | ||
| provide information regarding the Texas Driving with Disability | ||
| Program to: | ||
| (1) students who have a health condition or disability | ||
| that may impede effective communication with a peace officer and: | ||
| (A) who receive special education services under | ||
| Subchapter A; or | ||
| (B) who are covered by Section 504, | ||
| Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Section 794); and | ||
| (2) the parents of students described by Subdivision | ||
| (1). | ||
| (b) The information described under Subsection (a) shall be | ||
| provided to each student who is 16 years of age or older and | ||
| annually until the earlier of the student's: | ||
| (1) graduation from high school; or | ||
| (2) 21st birthday. | ||
| (c) The agency shall collaborate with the Department of | ||
| Public Safety, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, and the | ||
| Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities to develop the | ||
| information materials to be provided under Subsection (a). The | ||
| materials: | ||
| (1) must include information regarding a person's | ||
| option to voluntarily list any health condition or disability that | ||
| may impede the person's communication with a peace officer on a | ||
| person's vehicle registration information in accordance with | ||
| Section 502.061, Transportation Code, or application for an | ||
| original license under Section 521.142, Transportation Code; and | ||
| (2) may be provided with any transition planning | ||
| materials provided under this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 1001.001, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subdivisions (2) and (14) to read as follows: | ||
| (2) "Classroom instruction" includes instruction | ||
| provided: | ||
| (A) in a traditional classroom setting or through | ||
| other physical means or remotely through the Internet; and | ||
| (B) by an in-person driver education provider in | ||
| the manner described by Paragraph (A). | ||
| (14) "In-person driver education provider" means a | ||
| business that provides driver education courses in person, | ||
| including behind-the-wheel instruction, classroom instruction, | ||
| observation instruction, or driver's license examinations. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter C, Chapter 1001, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1001.10161 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1001.10161. DRIVING WITH DISABILITY PROGRAM | ||
| INFORMATION. The commission by rule shall require that information | ||
| relating to the Texas Driving with Disability Program be included | ||
| in the curriculum of each driver education and driving safety | ||
| course. | ||
| SECTION 4. (a) Not later than May 1, 2024, the Texas | ||
| Commission of Licensing and Regulation shall adopt the rules | ||
| required by Section 1001.10161, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| (b) Not later than September 1, 2024, each provider of a | ||
| driver education course or a driving safety course shall certify to | ||
| the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation that the course | ||
| curriculum has been updated to include the information required by | ||
| Section 1001.10161, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2304 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 3, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2304 passed the House on | ||
| May 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 11, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
