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.