By Oliveira H.B. No. 1527
75R3737 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation and oversight of local workforce
1-3 development boards.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 2308, Government Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Sections 2308.270-2308.272 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 2308.270. RESTRICTIONS ON BOARD COSTS. (a) In
1-8 reimbursing board personnel for travel expenses, a board may not
1-9 expend funds for travel in excess of the amount of money that may
1-10 be expended for state personnel under the General Appropriations
1-11 Act or travel regulations adopted by the comptroller, including any
1-12 restrictions on mileage reimbursement, per diem, and lodging
1-13 reimbursement rates.
1-14 (b) A board may not expend any funds for the purchase of
1-15 alcoholic beverages or entertainment.
1-16 (c) A board may purchase goods or a service only if the
1-17 board complies with the same provisions for purchasing goods or a
1-18 service that are equivalent to the provisions applying to a state
1-19 agency, including Chapters 2155-2158, Government Code.
1-20 (d) A board may not spend more than the lesser of the
1-21 following on indirect costs of the board:
1-22 (1) 20 percent of the board's direct personnel costs;
1-23 or
1-24 (2) 10 percent of the board's total direct costs.
2-1 (e) In this section, "indirect costs" means costs that are
2-2 not directly attributable to a single action of a board. The
2-3 council may further define the term as necessary to assist in the
2-4 administration of this section.
2-5 Sec. 2308.271. RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYMENT. (a) An officer
2-6 or employee of a board is subject to the same rules regarding
2-7 lobbying and other advocacy activities as an officer or employee of
2-8 any state agency.
2-9 (b) The nepotism provisions of Chapter 573, Government Code,
2-10 apply to a board.
2-11 Sec. 2308.272. SALARY SCHEDULES. (a) For each fiscal year,
2-12 a board shall adopt a salary schedule containing a classification
2-13 salary schedule for classified positions and identifying and
2-14 specifying the salaries for positions exempt from the
2-15 classification salary schedule.
2-16 (b) The salary schedule adopted by the board must be
2-17 identical, for classified positions, to the state salary schedule
2-18 for classified positions as prescribed by the General
2-19 Appropriations Act adopted by the most recent legislature.
2-20 (c) A salary for a position classified under the salary
2-21 schedule may not exceed the salary approved by the state auditor's
2-22 office and paid by the state for comparable work.
2-23 (d) A position may only be exempted from the classification
2-24 salary schedule adopted by the board if the exemption and the
2-25 amount of salary paid for the exempt position is within the range
2-26 determined appropriate for exempt positions by the state auditor.
2-27 (e) A board shall submit to the council for approval the
3-1 board's salary schedule, including the salaries of all exempt
3-2 positions, not later than the 45th day before the date of the
3-3 beginning of the board's fiscal year. A board may not implement a
3-4 salary schedule unless the salary schedule is approved by the
3-5 council.
3-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.