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. 1-31 * * * * *