By Greenberg, Seaman                                  H.B. No. 3480
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the membership of a local workforce development board.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 2308, Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 2308.2515 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 2308.2515.  APPLICATION OF PRIOR LAW.  (a)  If a change
 1-7     in law made by House Bill 3480, Acts of the 76th Legislature,
 1-8     Regular Session, 1999, would have the effect of invalidating an
 1-9     exemption granted under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (Pub.
1-10     L. No. 105-220), a local workforce development board may not
1-11     operate under that change in law but, instead, shall operate under
1-12     the law as it existed before the effective date of this Act.
1-13           (b)  A change in law described by Subsection (a) of this
1-14     section does not affect other related provisions or applications of
1-15     a statute that can be given effect without that change in law, and
1-16     to this end those other provisions and applications of the statute
1-17     shall be given effect.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 2308.256(a), Government Code, is amended
1-19     to read as follows:
1-20           (a)  A board is composed as follows:
1-21                 (1)  representatives of the private sector, who:
1-22                       (A)  constitute a majority of the membership of
1-23     the board; and
1-24                       (B)  are owners of business concerns, chief
 2-1     executives or chief operating officers of nongovernmental
 2-2     employers, or other private sector executives who have substantial
 2-3     management or policy responsibilities;
 2-4                 (2)  representatives of organized labor and
 2-5     community-based organizations, who constitute not less than 15
 2-6     percent of the membership of the board; and
 2-7                 (3)  representatives of each of the following:
 2-8                       (A)  educational agencies, including community
 2-9     colleges and secondary and postsecondary practitioners representing
2-10     vocational education, that are representative of all educational
2-11     agencies in the service delivery area;
2-12                       (B)  vocational rehabilitation agencies;
2-13                       (C)  public assistance agencies;
2-14                       (D)  economic development agencies;
2-15                       (E)  the public employment service;
2-16                       (F)  local literacy councils; and
2-17                       (G)  adult basic and continuing education
2-18     organizations.
2-19           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-20           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.