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.

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