Roles and Responsibilities

Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)

• provides an Online Driver Record Request System to allow a parent to verify whether the parent is eligible to teach a student based on the parent’s criminal and driver records
• verifies the parent instructor’s driving record when it processes the student’s learner license and provisional license
• recognizes TDLR’s Parent Taught Driver Education Program as an alternative to conventional driver education that will satisfy training requirements for obtaining a driver permit or license
• issues driver permits and driver licenses

Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)

• operates the Parent Taught Driver Education Program
• sells the Request for Parent Taught Driver Education Instructor Designation Service Application
• licenses and regulates driver education providers

TDLR-Approved Provider

• creates and sells course materials for use by a parent instructor to teach the student
• issues a Texas Driver Education Certificate of Completion, which must be provided to DPS for a student to get a learner license and a provisional license

Parent, Legal Guardian, or Designee

• verifies that they are eligible to be a parent instructor
• applies for a Parent Taught Driver Education Instructor Designation from TDLR
• chooses a TDLR-approved Parent Taught Driver Education course provider
• purchases a Parent Taught Driver Education course directly from a course provider
• completes the classroom and behind-the-wheel course of instruction for the student
• ensures the student passes the written exam at a DPS facility
• assists the student in obtaining a learner license at a DPS facility
• assists the student in obtaining a provisional license at a DPS facility