By Ellis S.B. No. 459
75R3794 JMM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the membership of a local workforce development board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2308.256(a), Government Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A board is composed as follows:
1-7 (1) representatives of the private sector, who:
1-8 (A) constitute a majority of the
1-9 membership of the board; and
1-10 (B) are owners of business concerns, chief
1-11 executives or chief operating officers of nongovernmental
1-12 employers, or other private sector executives who have substantial
1-13 management or policy responsibilities;
1-14 (2) representatives of organized labor and
1-15 community-based organizations, who constitute not less than 15
1-16 percent of the membership of the board; and
1-17 (3) representatives of each of the following:
1-18 (A) educational agencies, including secondary
1-19 and postsecondary practitioners representing vocational education,
1-20 that are representative of all educational agencies in the service
1-21 delivery area;
1-22 (B) vocational rehabilitation agencies;
1-23 (C) public assistance agencies;
1-24 (D) economic development agencies;
2-1 (E) the public employment service;
2-2 (F) local literacy councils; [and]
2-3 (G) child development and child care entities;
2-4 and
2-5 (H) adult basic and continuing education
2-6 organizations.
2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
2-8 applies to a local workforce development board created on or after
2-9 that date. The officials who appoint the members of a local
2-10 workforce development board created before the effective date of
2-11 this Act shall appoint new members to the board that reflect the
2-12 membership requirements of this Act as vacancies occur on the board
2-13 or as the terms of members serving on the board before the
2-14 effective date expire.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.