By Oliveira                                      H.B. No. 568

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of the Texas Workforce Commission to

 1-3     accept donations.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 301.021, Labor Code, is amended to read

 1-6     as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 301.021.  DONATIONS.  The commission may accept a

 1-8     donation of services, money, or property from a public or private

 1-9     entity [an organization listed in  Section 501(c)(3) of the

1-10     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 501(c)(3))] that

1-11     the commission determines furthers the lawful objectives of the

1-12     commission.  The donation must be accepted in an open meeting by a

1-13     majority of the voting members of the commission and must be

1-14     reported in the public records of the commission with the name of

1-15     the donor and the purpose of the donation.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.