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         By:  Ellis                                   S.B. No. 1519

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the authority of the Texas Workforce Commission to

 1-2     accept donations.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 301.021, Labor Code, is amended to read

 1-5     as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 301.021.  DONATIONS.  (1) The commission may accept a

 1-7     donation of services, money, or property [from an organization

 1-8     listed in  Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

 1-9     (26 U.S.C. Section 501(c)(3))] that the commission determines

1-10     furthers the lawful objectives of the commission.  The donation

1-11     must be accepted in an open meeting by a majority of the voting

1-12     members of the commission and must be reported in the public

1-13     records of the commission with the name of the donor and the

1-14     purpose of the donation.

1-15                 (2)  The commission shall not accept a donation from a

1-16     person who is a party to an administrative proceeding pending

1-17     before the commission until the 30th day after the final decision

1-18     of the commission is issued or who is a party to a suit in which

1-19     the commission is also a party.

1-20                 (3)  The commission shall not accept a donation from a

1-21     for-profit entity that has a contract with or submitted a bid

1-22     responsive to a pending request for proposal issued by the

1-23     commission for services or products valued at $50,000.00 or greater

 2-1     except the commission may accept a donation if the bid or contract

 2-2     relates only to the provision of child care services.

 2-3                 (4)  A for-profit entity shall not submit a bid

 2-4     responsive to a request for proposal or enter into a contract with

 2-5     the commission for a period of one year following the date of the

 2-6     donation except the for-profit entity may submit a bid responsive

 2-7     to a request for proposal or enter into a contract with the

 2-8     commission if the bid or contract relates only to the provision of

 2-9     child care services.

2-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

2-11     applies to donations made to the Texas Workforce Commission on or

2-12     after than date.

2-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.