By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1299
       73R3315 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the appointment by the governor of the governing bodies
    1-3  of certain nonprofit corporations that administer public job
    1-4  training funds.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  DEFINITION.  In this Act, "nonprofit corporation"
    1-7  means an entity incorporated under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation
    1-8  Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
    1-9        SECTION 2.  APPLICATION.  This Act applies to each nonprofit
   1-10  corporation that administers federal or state funds for the
   1-11  operation of a program created under Part B, Subchapter IV, Job
   1-12  Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. Section 1691 et seq.).
   1-13        SECTION 3.  APPOINTMENT OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS BY
   1-14  GOVERNOR.  (a)  The governor shall appoint the board of directors
   1-15  of each nonprofit corporation subject to this Act.
   1-16        (b)  A nonprofit corporation subject to this Act that is not
   1-17  governed by a board of directors appointed by the governor is not
   1-18  eligible to administer state or federal funds in this state.
   1-19        SECTION 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  (a)  Except as provided by
   1-20  Subsection (b) of this section, this Act takes effect September 1,
   1-21  1993.
   1-22        (b)  A nonprofit corporation that is not in compliance with
   1-23  Section 3 of this Act on the effective date of this Act shall amend
   1-24  its articles of incorporation not later than January 1, 1994, to
    2-1  provide for appointment of the board of directors by the governor.
    2-2        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-3  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.