NO! NO! NO!

Do not give a raw beginner an electric guitar!!!

Why?

Because beginner stuff sounds like crap on an electric. The first thing you learn to do on guitar is to play plain old vanilla chords with open strings in them. Those chords sound nice and full on an acoustic, but they sound like crap on an electric. Electrics are good for leads and barre chord/power chord accompaniment, not chord strumming, and strumming is the first thing a beginner needs to learn to do.

Another thing is that those who try to learn to play on an electric tend to set their sights too high and get easily frustrated. There are thousands of people out there who have an electric guitar under the bed that they've never learned to play because they were under the impression that playing like Joe Satriani was gonna be easy.

I should know. I was one of 'em. I got an inexpensive electric guitar kit at age 15 and promptly began to learn absolutely nothing because the work of guitarists I admired was so far over my head that I was totally frustrated. Seven years later I got an acoustic guitar and found that playing relatively simple stuff like John Prine songs was a lot of fun. From there, I progressed to more complex material and techniques. Now, many years later, I do sometimes play electric guitar and have fun doing it. But I learned the basic techniques that allow me to play an electric guitar decently on acoustic guitar.

For a beginner with rock'n roll tendencies I would suggest a relatively inexpensive acoustic-electric guitar (that's one with built-in pickup, volume and tone controls) like a Dean or lower end Takamine.

And, since you say that Hubby is a rocker and, thus, may be partial toward the special-effects-driven guitar sounds that abound in rock, you need to know that those effects are mostly produced by the amplifiers and special pedals, not by the guitars themselves. With the right amplifier, you can make an acoustic/electric sound as grungy as a Stratocaster or Les Paul.