Section 1001.112 - Parent-Taught Driver Education(a) A (b) may conduct a driver education course approved under Section 1001.1017 for another person who is required to complete a driver education course to obtain a Class C license. In conducting the course, the person must use course materials provided by a parent-taught driver education provider.(b) A person is eligible to conduct a driver education course for another person as provided by Subsection (a) if the person: (1) is either: (A) a parent, stepparent, foster parent, legal guardian, grandparent, or step-grandparent of the other person; or (B) an individual who: (i) has been designated on a form prescribed by the department for purposes of this section by a parent or legal guardian of the other person or by a judge of a court with jurisdiction over the other person; (ii) is at least 25 years of age; (iii) does not charge a fee for conducting the course; and (iv) has at least seven years of driving experience; (2) has possessed 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; (3) has not been convicted of: (A) criminally negligent homicide; or (B) driving while intoxicated in the past seven years; and (4) has not been convicted during the preceding three years of: (A) three or more moving violations described by Section 542.304, Transportation Code, including violations that resulted in a collision ; or (B) two or more moving violations described by Section 542.304, Transportation Code, that resulted in a collision . (c) A person conducting a driver education course under this section may provide the classroom instruction portion, the behind-the-wheel instruction portion, or both portions.(d) The department may not require for a course conducted under this section that: (1) the classroom instruction be provided in a room with particular characteristics or equipment; or(2) the vehicle used for the behind-the-wheel instruction have equipment other than the equipment otherwise required by law for operation of the vehicle on a highway while the vehicle is not being used for driver training.(e) A parent-taught driver education provider may administer to an applicant the highway sign and traffic law parts of the examination as provided by Section 521.1655(a-1), Transportation Code, through electronic means.(f) The department may not charge a fee for the submission of proof of:(1) completion of a course conducted under this section; or(2) passage of an examination administered under Subsection (e).Tex. Educ. Code § 1001.112
Amended by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 709,Sec. 127, eff. 9/1/2023.Amended by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 663,Sec. 5.18, eff. 9/1/2021.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 1094,Sec. 2, eff. 9/1/2019.Amended by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 990,Sec. 3, eff. 6/15/2017.Amended by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 584,Sec. 3, eff. 6/9/2017.Added by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1044,Sec. 26, eff. 9/1/2015. See Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 663, Sec. 5.71.