By:  Junell                                           H.B. No. 1090
       73R5281 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the administration and operation of certain job
    1-3  training programs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 5(b), Texas Job-Training Partnership Act
    1-6  (Article 4413(52), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (b)  The Texas Employment Commission <Department of Commerce>
    1-9  shall:
   1-10              (1)  have primary responsibility for implementation and
   1-11  management of the job-training program; and
   1-12              (2)  perform such other functions and duties relating
   1-13  to the job-training program as may be required by law or assigned
   1-14  by the governor.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 9A(a), Texas Job-Training Partnership Act
   1-16  (Article 4413(52), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
   1-17  read as follows:
   1-18        (a)  The Texas Employment Commission <Department of Commerce>
   1-19  is authorized to enter into contracts with public community and
   1-20  junior colleges and private, nonprofit organizations that conduct
   1-21  model or exemplary youth programs that meet the unique educational
   1-22  needs of student dropouts to provide educational services to
   1-23  student dropouts.  A contract under this section must be made in
   1-24  accordance with the same procedure by which a state agency
    2-1  contracts with a private consultant under Chapter 454, Acts of the
    2-2  65th Legislature, Regular Session, 1977 (Article 6252-11c, Vernon's
    2-3  Texas Civil Statutes).
    2-4        SECTION 3.  Section 481.023(c), Government Code, is amended
    2-5  to read as follows:
    2-6        (c)  The department shall perform the administrative duties
    2-7  formerly assigned to the Texas Department of Community Affairs
    2-8  under the <Texas Job-Training Partnership Act (Article 4413(52),
    2-9  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) and the> community development block
   2-10  grant program.
   2-11        SECTION 4.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-12        (b)  The Texas Employment Commission assumes all rights,
   2-13  privileges, powers, and duties under any contract entered into by
   2-14  the Texas Department of Commerce before September 1, 1993, under
   2-15  Section 9A(a), Texas Job-Training Partnership Act (Article
   2-16  4413(52), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   2-17        (c)  The property and records in the custody of the Texas
   2-18  Department of Commerce on the effective date of this Act that
   2-19  relate to the implementation and administration of the Texas
   2-20  Job-Training Partnership Act (Article 4413(52), Vernon's Texas
   2-21  Civil Statutes) shall be transferred to the Texas Employment
   2-22  Commission not later than December 31, 1993.
   2-23        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.