1-1     By:  Ellis, West                                      S.B. No. 1490

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 20, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;

 1-4     April 11, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 11, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1490                By:  Moncrief

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to training for local workforce development boards.

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

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 302.043, Labor Code, is

1-13     amended to read as follows:

1-14           (a)  The division shall provide management and board

1-15     development training for all members of local workforce development

1-16     boards that includes information regarding client eligibility

1-17     determination, early childhood education, vendor management, the

1-18     importance of high-quality workforces, and the complexity of

1-19     managing multiple state and federal child-care funding sources and

1-20     that [to the economic prosperity of their communities and]

1-21     encourages board members to be advocates in their communities for

1-22     effective and efficient workforce development programs and for the

1-23     improvement of child-care quality.  If a member of a local

1-24     workforce development board does not receive training under this

1-25     section before the 91st day after the date on which the member

1-26     begins service on the board, the person is ineligible to continue

1-27     serving on the board unless the training required under this

1-28     subsection was requested by the member but not provided by the

1-29     division.

1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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