1-1     By:  Greenberg, Seaman (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)      H.B. No. 3480
 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 membership of a local workforce development board.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 2308, Government Code, is
1-11     amended by adding Section 2308.2515 to read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 2308.2515.  APPLICATION OF PRIOR LAW.  (a)  If a change
1-13     in law made by House Bill 3480, Acts of the 76th Legislature,
1-14     Regular Session, 1999, would have the effect of invalidating an
1-15     exemption granted under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (Pub.
1-16     L. No. 105-220), a local workforce development board may not
1-17     operate under that change in law but, instead, shall operate under
1-18     the law as it existed before the effective date of this Act.
1-19           (b)  A change in law described by Subsection (a) of this
1-20     section does not affect other related provisions or applications of
1-21     a statute that can be given effect without that change in law, and
1-22     to this end those other provisions and applications of the statute
1-23     shall be given effect.
1-24           SECTION 2.  Section 2308.256(a), Government Code, is amended
1-25     to read as follows:
1-26           (a)  A board is composed as follows:
1-27                 (1)  representatives of the private sector, who:
1-28                       (A)  constitute a majority of the membership of
1-29     the board; and
1-30                       (B)  are owners of business concerns, chief
1-31     executives or chief operating officers of nongovernmental
1-32     employers, or other private sector executives who have substantial
1-33     management or policy responsibilities;
1-34                 (2)  representatives of organized labor and
1-35     community-based organizations, who constitute not less than 15
1-36     percent of the membership of the board; and
1-37                 (3)  representatives of each of the following:
1-38                       (A)  educational agencies, including community
1-39     colleges and secondary and postsecondary practitioners representing
1-40     vocational education, that are representative of all educational
1-41     agencies in the service delivery area;
1-42                       (B)  vocational rehabilitation agencies;
1-43                       (C)  public assistance agencies;
1-44                       (D)  economic development agencies;
1-45                       (E)  the public employment service;
1-46                       (F)  local literacy councils; and
1-47                       (G)  adult basic and continuing education
1-48     organizations.
1-49           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-50           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-51     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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