Bill Text: TX SB2304 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 2304

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




	AN ACT
	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