By Oliveira                                     H.B. No. 2916

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the provision of services in local workforce

 1-3     development areas.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 2308, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Sections 2308.3036 and 2308.3037 to read as

 1-7     follows:

 1-8           Sec. 2308.3036.  CONTRACTS FOR CERTAIN SERVICES.  A board may

 1-9     not contract with any entity to provide a service that is available

1-10     to the board from the state unless the bid offered by the entity

1-11     for the service is at least 10 percent lower than the cost to

1-12     receive that service from the state.

1-13           Sec. 2308.3037.  REPORTS OF EXPENDITURES BY STATE OFFICES.

1-14     (a) Each Texas Workforce Commission office that participates in a

1-15     state or federally funded workforce program in a local workforce

1-16     development area shall provide the board in that area an accounting

1-17     of all expenditures by the office associated with the delivery of

1-18     services in the area.

1-19           (b)  An accounting under Subsection (a) must include:

1-20                 (1)  the salary and benefits of each employee of the

1-21     office who works in the area;

1-22                 (2)  the indirect costs for regional and state

1-23     administration, including payroll, supervisory, and other

1-24     administrative costs;

 2-1                 (3)  the value or rental cost of any building and all

 2-2     equipment owned or leased by the office;

 2-3                 (4)  the number of employees in the office assigned to

 2-4     each major function of the delivery of workforce development

 2-5     services and the overall salary expenditure attributable to each

 2-6     major function;

 2-7                 (5)  the training costs incurred by the office,

 2-8     including travel costs related to training; and

 2-9                 (6)  any other costs associated with the delivery of

2-10     services in the area.

2-11           (c)  The information required to be reported under this

2-12     section shall be reported annually.  The council and the Texas

2-13     Workforce Commission, by rule, shall develop policies and

2-14     procedures that prescribe the time, manner, and format of the

2-15     report.

2-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, except

2-17     that an office of the Texas Workforce Commission is not required to

2-18     make a report under this Act before January 1, 1998.

2-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.