By: Ellis, Zaffirini S.B. No. 459 West, Lindsay A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the membership of a local workforce development board. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 2308.256, Government Code, is amended by 1-4 adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-5 (g) At least one of the members of a board appointed under 1-6 Subsection (a) must, in addition to the qualifications required for 1-7 the member under that subsection, have expertise in child care or 1-8 early childhood education. 1-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-10 applies to a local workforce development board created on or after 1-11 that date. The officials who appoint the members of a local 1-12 workforce development board created before the effective date of 1-13 this Act shall appoint new members to the board that reflect the 1-14 membership requirements of this Act as vacancies occur on the board 1-15 or as the terms of members serving on the board before the 1-16 effective date expire. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.