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By Coleman 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, Labor Code is amended to read as
1-5 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 and the complexity of managing multiple
1-10 state and federal child care funding sources. [to the economic
1-11 prosperity of their communities and] Training will also
1-12 encourage[s] board members to be advocates in their communities for
1-13 effective and efficient workforce development programs and for the
1-14 improvement of child care quality. If a member of a local
1-15 workforce development board does not receive training under this
1-16 section before the 91st day after the date on which the member
1-17 begins service on the board, the person is ineligible to continue
1-18 serving on the board unless the training required under this
1-19 subsection was requested by the member but not provided by the
1-20 division.
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 302.062, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-22 subsection (h) as follows:
1-23 (h) if a local workforce development board chooses to
1-24 participate in child care administration, the board must be trained
2-1 under Section 302.043, Labor Code, before the funding for child
2-2 care services provided under Chapter 44, Human Resources Code is
2-3 disbursed to the board.
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.