By Oliveira H.B. No. 568
75R2991 JMM-F
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.