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.