By: Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst)	H.B. No. 2708
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2015;
	May 7, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Transportation; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following
	vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the qualifications for teaching a driver education
	course.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 521.205(a), Transportation Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The department by rule shall provide for approval of a
	driver education course conducted by the parent, stepparent, foster
	parent, legal guardian, step-grandparent, or grandparent of a
	person who is required to complete a driver education course to
	obtain a Class C license.  The rules must provide that:
	(1)  the person conducting the course possess a valid
	license for the preceding three years that has not been suspended,
	revoked, or forfeited in the past three years for an offense that
	involves the operation of a motor vehicle;
	(2)  the student driver spend a minimum number of hours
	in:
	(A)  classroom instruction; and
	(B)  behind-the-wheel instruction;
	(3)  the person conducting the course not be convicted
	of:
	(A)  criminally negligent homicide; or
	(B)  driving while intoxicated; and
	(4)  [the person conducting the course not be disabled
	because of mental illness; and
	[(5)]  the person conducting the course not have six or
	more points assigned to the person's driver's license under
	Subchapter B, Chapter 708, at the time the person begins conducting
	the course.
	SECTION 2.  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, 2015.
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