1-1     By:  Ellis, Zaffirini, West, Lindsay                   S.B. No. 459

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1997; February 10, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;

 1-4     March 19, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 19, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 459                    By:  Ellis

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the membership of a local workforce development board.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 2308.256, Government Code, is amended by

1-13     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

1-14           (g)  At least one of the members of a board appointed under

1-15     Subsection (a) must, in addition to the qualifications required for

1-16     the member under that subsection, have expertise in child care or

1-17     early childhood education.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-19     applies to a local workforce development board created on or after

1-20     that date.  The officials who appoint the members of a local

1-21     workforce development board created before the effective date of

1-22     this Act shall appoint new members to the board that reflect the

1-23     membership requirements of this Act as vacancies occur on the board

1-24     or as the terms of members serving on the board before the

1-25     effective date expire.

1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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