1-1 By: Ellis S.B. No. 1519
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 20, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 8, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 8, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1519 By: Ellis
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the authority of the Texas Workforce Commission to
1-10 accept donations.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 301.021, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-13 as follows:
1-14 Sec. 301.021. DONATIONS. (a) The commission may accept a
1-15 donation of services, money, or property [from an organization
1-16 listed in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
1-17 (26 U.S.C. Section 501(c)(3))] that the commission determines
1-18 furthers the lawful objectives of the commission. The donation
1-19 must be accepted in an open meeting by a majority of the voting
1-20 members of the commission and must be reported in the public
1-21 records of the commission with the name of the donor and the
1-22 purpose of the donation.
1-23 (b) The commission may not accept a donation from a person
1-24 who is a party to an administrative proceeding pending before the
1-25 commission until the 30th day after the date the commission's final
1-26 order is issued. The commission may not accept a donation from a
1-27 person who is a party to a suit in which the commission is also a
1-28 party.
1-29 (c) The commission may not accept a donation from a
1-30 for-profit entity that has a contract with the commission or has
1-31 submitted a bid in response to a pending request for proposal
1-32 issued by the commission for services or products having a value of
1-33 not less than $50,000. This subsection does not apply to a
1-34 contract or bid that relates only to providing child-care services.
1-35 (d) A for-profit entity may not enter into a contract with
1-36 the commission or submit a bid in response to a request for
1-37 proposal issued by the commission before the first anniversary of
1-38 the date of making a donation to the commission unless the contract
1-39 or bid relates only to providing child-care services.
1-40 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-41 applies only to a donation made to the Texas Workforce Commission
1-42 on or after that date.
1-43 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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