By: Ellis, West S.B. No. 1490
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to training for local workforce development boards.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 302.043, Labor Code is amended to read as
1-4 follows:
1-5 (a) The division shall provide management and board
1-6 development training for all members of local workforce development
1-7 boards that includes information regarding the importance of
1-8 high-quality workforces and the complexity of managing multiple
1-9 state and federal child care funding sources. [to the economic
1-10 prosperity of their communities and] Training will also
1-11 encourage[s] board members to be advocates in their communities for
1-12 effective and efficient workforce development programs and for the
1-13 improvement of child care quality. If a member of a local
1-14 workforce development board does not receive training under this
1-15 section before the 91st day after the date on which the member
1-16 begins service on the board, the person is ineligible to continue
1-17 serving on the board unless the training required under this
1-18 subsection was requested by the member but not provided by the
1-19 division.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 302.062, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-21 Subsection (h) as follows:
2-1 (h) if a local workforce development board chooses to
2-2 participate in child care administration, the board must be trained
2-3 under Section 302.043, Labor Code, before the funding for child
2-4 care services provided under Chapter 44, Human Resources Code is
2-5 disbursed to the board.
2-6 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.