AN ACT

 1-1     relating to a report by the Texas Workforce Commission regarding

 1-2     implementation of the integration of certain state services

 1-3     regarding workforce development.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 301, Labor Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Section 301.0655 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 301.0655.  REPORT.  (a)  The commission shall prepare a

 1-8     comprehensive report on the efforts made by this state in

 1-9     integrating the delivery of state services regarding job training,

1-10     employment, employment-related educational programs, career

1-11     development programs, and other workforce development programs.

1-12           (b)  The report must include:

1-13                 (1)  an analysis of the implementation of the "one-stop

1-14     for service" program required to be provided under the local

1-15     workforce development system;

1-16                 (2)  issues and problems to be addressed by the

1-17     commission in integrating the delivery of services; and

1-18                 (3)  a proposed date for final implementation of the

1-19     integration of all services provided locally and integrated into

1-20     the network of full-service career development centers.

1-21           (c)  Not later than December 15, 1998, the commission shall

1-22     issue the report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the

1-23     speaker of the house of representatives, and the governing bodies

 2-1     of each state agency charged with duties related to workforce

 2-2     development in this state.

 2-3           (d)  This section expires January 15, 1999.

 2-4           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 417 passed the Senate on

         April 3, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 417 passed the House on

         May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor