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.