75R11670 SAW-F
By Coleman H.B. No. 2926
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2926:
By Oliveira C.S.H.B. No. 2926
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to training for local workforce development boards.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 302.043(a), Labor Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) The division shall provide management and board
1-7 development training for all members of local workforce development
1-8 boards that includes information regarding the importance of
1-9 high-quality workforces, the complexity of managing multiple state
1-10 and federal child-care funding sources, vendor management, client
1-11 eligibility determination, and child development to the economic
1-12 prosperity of their communities. Training shall also encourage
1-13 [and encourages] board members to be advocates in their communities
1-14 for effective and efficient workforce development programs and for
1-15 the importance of quality child care to successful workforce
1-16 development. If a member of a local workforce development board
1-17 does not receive training under this section before the 91st day
1-18 after the date on which the member begins service on the board, the
1-19 person is ineligible to continue serving on the board unless the
1-20 training required under this subsection was requested by the member
1-21 but not provided by the division.
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 302.062, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-23 Subsection (h) to read as follows:
1-24 (h) The commission may not disburse funds allocated to a
2-1 local workforce development board to provide child-care services
2-2 under Chapter 44, Human Resources Code, until the board receives
2-3 training required under Section 302.043.
2-4 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.