By Gallego H.B. No. 2088
74R6367 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the elimination of certain budget approval requirements
1-3 applicable to the Council on Workforce and Economic
1-4 Competitiveness.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 2.18(b), Workforce and Economic
1-7 Competitiveness Act (Article 5190.7a, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-8 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-9 (b) The council shall develop a budget to carry out the
1-10 council's duties and responsibilities under this Act. <The budget
1-11 must be submitted to the governor and the Legislative Budget Board
1-12 for approval.> The budget shall identify funds appropriated for
1-13 the biennium ending August 31, 1995, for planning and evaluation of
1-14 a workforce development program administered by an agency
1-15 represented on the council and shall recommend the transfer of
1-16 those funds to the functions being assumed by the council.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.