By Greenberg                                    H.B. No. 2447

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the membership of a local workforce development board.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 2308.256(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  A board is composed as follows:

 1-7                 (1)  representatives of the private sector, who:

 1-8                       (A)  constitute a majority of the membership of

 1-9     the board; and

1-10                       (B)  are owners of business concerns, chief

1-11     executives or chief operating officers of nongovernmental

1-12     employers, or other private sector executives who have substantial

1-13     management or policy responsibilities;

1-14                 (2)  representatives of organized labor and

1-15     community-based organizations, who constitute not less than 15

1-16     percent of the membership of the board; and

1-17                 (3)  representatives of each of the following:

1-18                       (A)  educational agencies, including secondary

1-19     and postsecondary practitioners representing vocational education,

1-20     that are representative of all educational agencies in the service

1-21     delivery area;

1-22                       (B)  vocational rehabilitation agencies;

1-23                       (C)  public assistance agencies;

1-24                       (D)  economic development agencies;

 2-1                       (E)  the public employment service;

 2-2                       (F)  local literacy councils; [and]

 2-3                       (G)  early childhood education entities; and

 2-4                       (H)  adult basic and continuing education

 2-5     organizations.

 2-6           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

 2-7     applies to a local workforce development board created on or after

 2-8     that date.  The officials who appoint the members of a local

 2-9     workforce development board created before the effective date of

2-10     this Act shall appoint new members to the board that reflect the

2-11     membership requirements of this Act as vacancies occur on the board

2-12     or as the terms of members serving on the board before the

2-13     effective date expire.

2-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.