By Greenberg, Seaman H.B. No. 3480 76R13544 CMR-D 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.