By: Haywood S.B. No. 1759 97S0881/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of local workforce boards regarding 1-2 staffing and evaluations. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2308.267, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) Nothing in this section prohibits the designation of a 1-7 single individual or entity to provide staff services to a board 1-8 and carry out any or all of the outreach, information, intake, 1-9 assessment, eligibility determination, referral, and case 1-10 management functions associated with the operation of a career 1-11 development center, provided the board arranges for an independent 1-12 evaluation of such functions provided by the individual or entity. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.