Issue Date:
Revised Date: 2024-01-01

Legal Citations

Object Type

Cash — Transportation

Origin Date

1967 by the 60th Leg.

Description

Department of Licensing and Regulation sets fees charged each driver training provider. Including fees for:

  • Driver education provider license (in-person, online, parent-taught)
  • Driving safety provider license
  • Course provider license
  • Annual renewal
  • Provider directors and assistant director/administrative staff instructor license
  • Change of address or name change
  • Duplicate license
  • Certificate of course completion
  • Approval of driving safety course not evaluated by the board
  • Regulating adult driver education courses
  • Change of ownership
  • Course provider for deaf and hard of hearing students
  • Driver education instructors (teachers, teaching assistants, supervising teachers)
  • Motorcycle schools, instructors, and instructor training provider licenses

Due Date

Processing fee before starting operations. License fees done annually.

Note

Originally collected by the Texas Department of Public Safety and deposited to GR Account - Operator's and Chauffeur's License (0099).

Amended by S.B. 757, 72nd Leg., R.S.

Amended by H.B. 2410, 73rd Leg., R.S.

Rates amended by S.B. 964, 74th Leg., R.S.

Codified by H.B. 3507, 78th Leg., R.S.

Driver education course fee to schools added by S.B. 1317, 81st Leg., R.S. 

Amended by H.B. 339, 81st Leg., R.S. 

Amended by S.B. 858, 81st Leg., R.S.

H.B. 1786, 84th Leg., R.S. moved driver’s education program from the Texas Education Agency to Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Previously, most fees were set in Ch. 1001. H.B. 1786 changed fees to set by TDLR.

Deaf and hard of hearing course provider fees added by S.B. 1051, 85th Leg., R.S.

Driver education instructor added by H.B. 2847, 86th Leg., R.S.

S.B. 616, 86th Leg., R.S. transferred motorcycle education program from the Department of Public Safety to the Department of Licensing and Regulation, effective 9/1/2020. 

"School" changed to "provider" by H.B. 1560, 87th Leg., R.S., effective 6/1/2023.

Motorcycle licenses amended by S.B. 478, 88th Leg., R.S. Effective 1/1/2024.

USAS Values

Appropriation Year 25
USAS Title COMMERCIAL DRIVER TRAINING SCH FEES
Receipt Category 01 – Transportation
Receipt Type 10 – Business/Professional Fees
Object Group 30 – Revenues
USAS Status A
Rev/Exp Category 01 – LICENSES, FEES, FINES, AND PENALTIES