1-1     By:  Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)                  H.B. No. 2915
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
 1-4     Development; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the powers and duties of the executive director of the
 1-9     workforce development division of the Texas Workforce Commission.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 302.002, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-12     Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-13           (f)  In addition to the services provided under Subsection
1-14     (a)(12), the executive director may enter into contracts with local
1-15     workforce development boards or other entities to establish service
1-16     level agreements for technology assistance and support. The
1-17     executive director may charge fees for services based on the
1-18     service level options selected by those entities.  All fees
1-19     collected under this subsection may be used only by the commission
1-20     to pay costs incurred in providing those services.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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