By Greenberg H.B. No. 3480 76R5187 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. Section 2308.256(a), Government Code, is amended 1-5 to read as follows: 1-6 (a) A board is composed as follows: 1-7 (1) representatives of the private sector, who: 1-8 (A) constitute a majority of the membership of 1-9 the board; and 1-10 (B) are owners of business concerns, chief 1-11 executives or chief operating officers of nongovernmental 1-12 employers, or other private sector executives who have substantial 1-13 management or policy responsibilities; 1-14 (2) representatives of organized labor and 1-15 community-based organizations, who constitute not less than 15 1-16 percent of the membership of the board; and 1-17 (3) representatives of each of the following: 1-18 (A) educational agencies, including: 1-19 (i) secondary and postsecondary 1-20 practitioners representing vocational education, that are 1-21 representative of all educational agencies in the service delivery 1-22 area; 1-23 (ii) an expert in education approved by 1-24 the board; and 2-1 (iii) a community college representative; 2-2 (B) vocational rehabilitation agencies; 2-3 (C) public assistance agencies; 2-4 (D) economic development agencies; 2-5 (E) the public employment service; 2-6 (F) local literacy councils; and 2-7 (G) adult basic and continuing education 2-8 organizations. 2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 2-10 applies to a local workforce development board created on or after 2-11 that date. The officials who appoint the members of a local 2-12 workforce development board created before the effective date of 2-13 this Act shall appoint new members to the board that reflect the 2-14 membership requirements of Section 2308.256(a), Government Code, as 2-15 amended by this Act, as vacancies occur on the board or as the 2-16 terms of members serving on the board before the effective date 2-17 expire. 2-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.