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. 1-55 * * * * *